Guest runner7@fastmail.fm Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 I am having just a really hard time trying to find out if there are any settings changes that need to be made when wiping a disk, reformatting, and then restoring the system partition to an enlarged partition. The 3rd party Partition Magic some recommend for the job has only non-server versions of Windows as system requirements. I really do not want to buy software to do this anyway, if possible. Can anyone tell me if there are any settings changes that need to be made for the above scenario, such as possibly may relate to partition size in the registry, etc.? Thanks for reading this.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Re: restoring system partition to larger partition <runner7@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:1189133813.114103.282590@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com... >I am having just a really hard time trying to find out if there are > any settings changes that need to be made when wiping a disk, > reformatting, and then restoring the system partition to an enlarged > partition. The 3rd party Partition Magic some recommend for the job > has only non-server versions of Windows as system requirements. I > really do not want to buy software to do this anyway, if possible. > Can anyone tell me if there are any settings changes that need to be > made for the above scenario, such as possibly may relate to partition > size in the registry, etc.? Thanks for reading this. > Use backup/restore, or use xcopy/robocopy under a Bart PE boot both for a backup/restore.
Guest runner7@fastmail.fm Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 Re: restoring system partition to larger partition On Sep 6, 10:24 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: > > Use backup/restore, or use xcopy/robocopy under > a Bart PE boot both for a backup/restore. Thanks for the answer. I would tend to infer from this that there are no setting or configuration changes to be made once the restored boot and system files/folders suddenly find themselves on a new, larger system partition. Am I correct in this, or do you know? Do you know if this same thing would be true for all Windows versions? Thanks for any further input.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 8, 2007 Posted September 8, 2007 Re: restoring system partition to larger partition <runner7@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:1189220225.003716.178040@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > On Sep 6, 10:24 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote: >> >> Use backup/restore, or use xcopy/robocopy under >> a Bart PE boot both for a backup/restore. > > Thanks for the answer. I would tend to infer from this that there are > no setting or configuration changes to be made once the restored boot > and system files/folders suddenly find themselves on a new, larger > system partition. Am I correct in this, or do you know? Do you know > if this same thing would be true for all Windows versions? Thanks for > any further input. > This is correct for Win9x, NT, 2000 & XP.
Guest runner7@fastmail.fm Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Re: restoring system partition to larger partition > > Thanks for the answer. I would tend to infer from this that there are > > no setting or configuration changes to be made once the restored boot > > and system files/folders suddenly find themselves on a new, larger > > system partition. Am I correct in this, or do you know? Do you know > > if this same thing would be true for all Windows versions? Thanks for > > any further input. > > This is correct for Win9x, NT, 2000 & XP. How about Windows Server 2000 and 2003, and Windows Vista? Also, if you know where any of this is documented, I would sure appreciate knowing where. Thanks again.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Re: restoring system partition to larger partition <runner7@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:1189306778.819647.194760@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com... >> > Thanks for the answer. I would tend to infer from this that there are >> > no setting or configuration changes to be made once the restored boot >> > and system files/folders suddenly find themselves on a new, larger >> > system partition. Am I correct in this, or do you know? Do you know >> > if this same thing would be true for all Windows versions? Thanks for >> > any further input. >> >> This is correct for Win9x, NT, 2000 & XP. > > How about Windows Server 2000 and 2003, and Windows Vista? Also, if > you know where any of this is documented, I would sure appreciate > knowing where. Thanks again. > It's probably true for the two server versions. Don't know for Vista - you'll have to test it for yourself.
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