Hi, restore should work, as long as the volume size is at least identical or larger to the original volume. Usually the system will remain bootable, if there do not interfer hidden partitions of the notebook maker or the original boot volume was the second partition on the original disk. In this case you have to try the startup repair from the Vista DVD to solve this situation. There is also a chance, that Product Activation may kick in. A hint: Before starting, try if your restore CD boot can find the server and the storage drivers and if not, get the proper network drivers (Vista 32 Bit) before going on.
The other question is: Why restore C: drive at all? You can add the new disk, copy the content of the second partition directly or use ClientRestoreWizard.exe from C:\Program Files\Windows Home Server to restore the second partition only to a new created volume on the second disk.
If this succeeded, open a command prompt as Administrator and enter following commands: diskpart list volume select volume x (replace the x with the number of the original volume, which you have now copied to the second disk) delete (deletes the selected volume) select volume y (replace y with the number of the system volume) extend (extends the selected volume by directly following free space on that disk) exit
(If something of this does not work from within the running OS, altough it should with Vista, use your Vista DVD, boot from it and open the command prompt in the System Repair options to execute the mentioned commands.) Be carefull selecting the proper volumes, because there is no "Are you sure?" interaction.
Best greetings from Germany Olaf
Proposed as answer bykariya21ModeratorThursday, January 1, 2009 5:22 PM
Hi, restore should work, as long as the volume size is at least identical or larger to the original volume. Usually the system will remain bootable, if there do not interfer hidden partitions of the notebook maker or the original boot volume was the second partition on the original disk. In this case you have to try the startup repair from the Vista DVD to solve this situation. There is also a chance, that Product Activation may kick in. A hint: Before starting, try if your restore CD boot can find the server and the storage drivers and if not, get the proper network drivers (Vista 32 Bit) before going on.
The other question is: Why restore C: drive at all? You can add the new disk, copy the content of the second partition directly or use ClientRestoreWizard.exe from C:\Program Files\Windows Home Server to restore the second partition only to a new created volume on the second disk.
If this succeeded, open a command prompt as Administrator and enter following commands: diskpart list volume select volume x (replace the x with the number of the original volume, which you have now copied to the second disk) delete (deletes the selected volume) select volume y (replace y with the number of the system volume) extend (extends the selected volume by directly following free space on that disk) exit
(If something of this does not work from within the running OS, altough it should with Vista, use your Vista DVD, boot from it and open the command prompt in the System Repair options to execute the mentioned commands.) Be carefull selecting the proper volumes, because there is no "Are you sure?" interaction.
Best greetings from Germany Olaf
Proposed as answer bykariya21ModeratorThursday, January 1, 2009 5:22 PM
The advantage to Olaf's method is that it's a little less invasive, up front. The disadvantage is that manipulating the partition table in that fashion will usually result in needing to reconfigure your backups. The advantage to the "restore each partition to it's own drive" method is that you probably won't have to reconfigure your backups afterward.
If you decide to restore each partition, I would install the new drive in place of the current drive, restore the C: partition, then see if it will boot. After that you can A) connect the other drive as the second drive and manipulate the partition table as Olaf describes, B) connect it to some other PC and manipulate the partition table, or C) delete all partitions on the drive and restore the D: partition onto that drive. I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
I asked this question because I was worried that there was some low-level magic going on with the partitions and that restoring the volumes in the way I described wouldn't be as simple as I thought. Thanks for confirming this for me, but the process doesn't sound terribly difficult.
Hi, there is no "low level magic", which is already visible by the fact, that you have to create the volumes first before you can restore to them. Best greetings from Germany Olaf
