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In news:r8335659ce9rgrjhpb8nnb5kkn4eva37jq@4ax.com,
(PeteCresswell) <x@y.Invalid> typed:
> I'm about to buy a laptop with, say, a 300-gig hard drive.
>
> My Expectations:
>
> - The installed system will contain a bunch of marketing
> stuff
>
> - The hard drive will have only one partition or maybe a
> second partition for the recovery disc image if they're
> saving money on discs.
>
> - Recovery discs will not offer up a re-partitioning option
> and will restore the hard drive to precisely the state it
> was when the laptop was new.
>
>
> My Agenda:
>
> - To tweak the system to where I want it
> > Install more applications
> > Get rid of the marketing stuff
>
> - To image the tweaked system in such a way
> that it can be restored to a 30-gig partition.
>
> - To re-partition the hard drive
> > 30 gigs for the system
> > The rest for a D: ("Data") drive
>
> - To re-image said hard drive
>
>
> My Question:
>
> Is there a way to image that 300-gig partition - which will
> contain less than 30 gigs of actual "stuff" - in such a way
> that a good system can be created by re-imaging to a 30-gig
> partition?
>
> Seems like it might be theoretically possible if the utility
> could know which sectors were virgin and which were used...
> or if the partition were defragged to where everything was
> contiguous and the utility could figure out where that was.
You cannot "image" to a smaller drive if you're using the term literally.
Read the manual that came with your imaging ware.
If your "image" is, say, a Norton Ghost image, then as long as the new drive
is large enough to hold all the data in storage, then yes, it'll work. If
you're lucky you have a separate image of your boot drive: Use that and only
restore the OS related programs/folders. It should fit into 30 Gig, but
depending on what programs you have installed, that could be too small for
much growth in the future. 50 Gig would be a much better number and IMO 80
Gig ideal so that you don't fill more than 85% of the drive.
BTW, you "image" to a restore drive. You Restore images TO your hard drives.
You're not going to get well targetted answers because you have provided
pathetically little information to go on.
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(PeteCresswell) <x@y.Invalid> typed:
> I'm about to buy a laptop with, say, a 300-gig hard drive.
>
> My Expectations:
>
> - The installed system will contain a bunch of marketing
> stuff
>
> - The hard drive will have only one partition or maybe a
> second partition for the recovery disc image if they're
> saving money on discs.
>
> - Recovery discs will not offer up a re-partitioning option
> and will restore the hard drive to precisely the state it
> was when the laptop was new.
>
>
> My Agenda:
>
> - To tweak the system to where I want it
> > Install more applications
> > Get rid of the marketing stuff
>
> - To image the tweaked system in such a way
> that it can be restored to a 30-gig partition.
>
> - To re-partition the hard drive
> > 30 gigs for the system
> > The rest for a D: ("Data") drive
>
> - To re-image said hard drive
>
>
> My Question:
>
> Is there a way to image that 300-gig partition - which will
> contain less than 30 gigs of actual "stuff" - in such a way
> that a good system can be created by re-imaging to a 30-gig
> partition?
>
> Seems like it might be theoretically possible if the utility
> could know which sectors were virgin and which were used...
> or if the partition were defragged to where everything was
> contiguous and the utility could figure out where that was.
You cannot "image" to a smaller drive if you're using the term literally.
Read the manual that came with your imaging ware.
If your "image" is, say, a Norton Ghost image, then as long as the new drive
is large enough to hold all the data in storage, then yes, it'll work. If
you're lucky you have a separate image of your boot drive: Use that and only
restore the OS related programs/folders. It should fit into 30 Gig, but
depending on what programs you have installed, that could be too small for
much growth in the future. 50 Gig would be a much better number and IMO 80
Gig ideal so that you don't fill more than 85% of the drive.
BTW, you "image" to a restore drive. You Restore images TO your hard drives.
You're not going to get well targetted answers because you have provided
pathetically little information to go on.
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