Guest Craig Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Windows XP Pro SP2, single hard drive configuration with two partitions Have a 200GB hard drive with bad sectors (Maxtor), successfully backed up with Automated System Recovery, replaced hard drive with a Western Digital 500GB, ASR keeps failing with message "The capacity of the current system disk drive is insufficient, and cannot be used to recover the partitions on the original system disk." I have used XP boot CD recovery console to format new drive NTFS, replace MBR and replaced boot sector but ASR will not restore. The ONLY hardware that changed was the hard drive, all other hardware is identical. I even slaved drive with original disk and formatted in Disk Manager (without assigning a drive letter). Each format has been a full format, not a quick format, using default NTFS parameters and a single partition of 495+/-GB. Any suggestions?
Guest JS Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: ASR cannot restore to larger drive Try creating an Image backup using True Image and then restore to the new drive. (has a 15 day trial version available) http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ JS "Craig" <Craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FCF9C4E0-13F1-40C2-B3CD-22466666FB34@microsoft.com... > Windows XP Pro SP2, single hard drive configuration with two partitions > > Have a 200GB hard drive with bad sectors (Maxtor), successfully backed up > with Automated System Recovery, replaced hard drive with a Western Digital > 500GB, ASR keeps failing with message "The capacity of the current system > disk drive is insufficient, and cannot be used to recover the partitions > on > the original system disk." I have used XP boot CD recovery console to > format > new drive NTFS, replace MBR and replaced boot sector but ASR will not > restore. The ONLY hardware that changed was the hard drive, all other > hardware is identical. I even slaved drive with original disk and > formatted > in Disk Manager (without assigning a drive letter). Each format has been > a > full format, not a quick format, using default NTFS parameters and a > single > partition of 495+/-GB. Any suggestions?
Guest Craig Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: ASR cannot restore to larger drive I'm not sure I can get another successful backup since the hard drive is failing (no clunking yet, thank god!). The ASR is the only successful backup I have. I've used ASR to migrate from smaller to larger drives 3 times (40GB to 80GB, 80GB to 100 and 100 to 200) without a hitch. I truly hope to find a method to restore my current ASR. I have some much, much older backups on a DDS tape but they are quite outdated. So my only recourse is hte current ASR file. Thank you for your suggestion, I will take a look at that product for possible use in the future. "JS" wrote: > Try creating an Image backup using True Image and then restore to the new > drive. > (has a 15 day trial version available) > http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ > > JS > > "Craig" <Craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:FCF9C4E0-13F1-40C2-B3CD-22466666FB34@microsoft.com... > > Windows XP Pro SP2, single hard drive configuration with two partitions > > > > Have a 200GB hard drive with bad sectors (Maxtor), successfully backed up > > with Automated System Recovery, replaced hard drive with a Western Digital > > 500GB, ASR keeps failing with message "The capacity of the current system > > disk drive is insufficient, and cannot be used to recover the partitions > > on > > the original system disk." I have used XP boot CD recovery console to > > format > > new drive NTFS, replace MBR and replaced boot sector but ASR will not > > restore. The ONLY hardware that changed was the hard drive, all other > > hardware is identical. I even slaved drive with original disk and > > formatted > > in Disk Manager (without assigning a drive letter). Each format has been > > a > > full format, not a quick format, using default NTFS parameters and a > > single > > partition of 495+/-GB. Any suggestions? > > >
Guest HeyBub Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: ASR cannot restore to larger drive Craig wrote: > Windows XP Pro SP2, single hard drive configuration with two > partitions > > Have a 200GB hard drive with bad sectors (Maxtor), successfully > backed up with Automated System Recovery, replaced hard drive with a > Western Digital 500GB, ASR keeps failing with message "The capacity > of the current system disk drive is insufficient, and cannot be used > to recover the partitions on the original system disk." I have used > XP boot CD recovery console to format new drive NTFS, replace MBR and > replaced boot sector but ASR will not restore. The ONLY hardware > that changed was the hard drive, all other hardware is identical. I > even slaved drive with original disk and formatted in Disk Manager > (without assigning a drive letter). Each format has been a full > format, not a quick format, using default NTFS parameters and a > single partition of 495+/-GB. Any suggestions? Just a wild guess: Repartition the 500GB drive to 200+300. Then try. If that's successful, you can then - by hook and crook - expand the 200 to full disk capacity.
Guest Craig Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: ASR cannot restore to larger drive Good suggestion, but I tried that already. I've created and deleted partitions ranging from 80GB (the size of the partition in my backup) to 200GB with the same problem. Thanks for the suggestion! "HeyBub" wrote: > Craig wrote: > > Windows XP Pro SP2, single hard drive configuration with two > > partitions > > > > Have a 200GB hard drive with bad sectors (Maxtor), successfully > > backed up with Automated System Recovery, replaced hard drive with a > > Western Digital 500GB, ASR keeps failing with message "The capacity > > of the current system disk drive is insufficient, and cannot be used > > to recover the partitions on the original system disk." I have used > > XP boot CD recovery console to format new drive NTFS, replace MBR and > > replaced boot sector but ASR will not restore. The ONLY hardware > > that changed was the hard drive, all other hardware is identical. I > > even slaved drive with original disk and formatted in Disk Manager > > (without assigning a drive letter). Each format has been a full > > format, not a quick format, using default NTFS parameters and a > > single partition of 495+/-GB. Any suggestions? > > Just a wild guess: Repartition the 500GB drive to 200+300. Then try. If > that's successful, you can then - by hook and crook - expand the 200 to full > disk capacity. > > >
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