New HD and Rollback rx

[ea3ot]

In a few days I will change my WD HD 250 gb with a new WD Velociraptor 150 Gb as Master C and I will keep the the old one as 1 slave. My question is, I can use the Rollback to load the new disk whit what I have now?? If it,s possible, what will be the best way to do it. Will be the Acronis, better to do that ?? I have both on my actual PC. BTW,from my actual HD 250 Gb I use onlly 100 gb, that means everything will be ok on the Velociraptor 150 Gb. ( considering size of course)

[weelist]

im planning to do something similar. what's the difference between acronis and rollback? anyone have thoughts on this?

[carfal]

ea3ot, firstly you cannot add a new drive without first uninstalling Rollback.

Doing so will probably corrupt the sector maps that Rollback uses because it wasnt aware of the second drive when it was first installed. Secondly, if you restore an image of your old drive onto your new one then again, Rollback will be unaware of the new drive's sectors being that you've restored to a different drive altogether. Even if you were to successfully restore to a different drive with Rollback intact, you would still need to uninstall Rollback BEFORE plugging the second drive (your old C: drive) to your Motherboard because in Rollback's eyes, it was installed with only one existing HD.

So either way, Rollback will need to be uninstalled resulting in the loss of all your snapshots.

I would recommend the following course of action. Its best to create a boot disk using your favourite Imaging software. Acronis True Image is an excellent choice.

1. Uninstall Rollback

2. Boot your computer from the Emergency Boot Disk (EBD) you created earlier.

3. Image your existing HD using an external drive or DVD's to back up to.

4. Leaving the EBD in the drive, shutdown PC. Change HD over ensuring that the new disk is jumpered as master.

5. Turn PC back on and allow it to boot from EBD again. Restore the image you just created to the new harddisk. You said the new disk is 150GB and you only had about 100Gb of data. The remaining 50Gb should be formatted automatically after the restore process has finished (or during....I cant remember how Acronis handles it).

6. Reboot the PC and "press any key" when asked to skip booting from the EBD (or the other way round.....cant remember). Allow the PC to boot from the new HD taking note that everything is as it should be (a new hardware was found window may pop up....just follow the prompts). When the system is stable and your sure that everything is working shutdown the PC. (Take out the EBD before shutting down if you havent done so already. You wont need it now).

7. Plug in Old drive C: making sure its jumpered as slave.

8. IMPORTANT. When you turn on PC now make sure that you press the "Delete" key so as to enter the BIOS before first boot with second drive. This is because the second drive is still marked as active with a working Windows so you want to get into the BIOS to make sure that the boot sequence is pointing to the new HD you just installed. Now reboot normally.

9. When Windows finishes loading, open Windows Explorer and right click on what should be Drive D:.(Ensuring that drive D: is indeed the old drive) Now click on format and proceed to format as NTFS.

10. When done, install Rollback again and your set.


PS If you dont want Rollback to protect Drive D: then choose the custom Setup during Rollback installation and deselect drive D:. If you later decide that you want to protect drive D: then be aware that the only way to do this is to uninstall Rollback and reinstall it selecting Drive D: when the option comes around or simply select the "default setup".

[ea3ot]

Many thanks for your help Carfal. Very appreciated

[weelist]

carfal, thanks for your reply... these instructions will help a lot!

[ea3ot]

<<<<Plug in Old drive C: making sure its jumpered as slave.>>>>

Im installing SATA,s drives with SATA cables and I guess no need remove jumpers..

[carfal]

Your right, I dont think there are any jumpers with SATA. You'll have to go into the BIOS and tell it which drive to boot from in there.

[ea3ot]

Well, all is done , and works perfectly well but I need say somthing, Before I unnistall Rollback, I check in advanced Tasks the section Backup Snapshots... and any of the four options : backup, make a recovery media etc etc are working. Any. I dont give any importance to that waitting for the new installation. After, change the new disk and keep the old for future storage, I have re-installed again Rollback rx to the new disK and bingo when I check again in Backup Snapshots section i see the same situation, any of the options do nothing. I put de mouse in top of any , double click and nothing happens, The rest of the software is working Ok. In this PC I use Win 7 x64. I have another PC with Win 7 x32 and all is ok, everthing is working. At the moment I dont know whats going on and I can,t understand why the Image Drive section is not working on my pc... to be honest, I d.ont care too much about this options, but of course it seems something is wrong.

[carfal]

It sounds to me that your still using v8.1

V8.1 is not supported by W7 and might explain why the backup snapshot section doesnt work. You said that it works in W7 x32 but not the W7 x64. I think consider yourself lucky it works at all with either of them.

I would recommend upgrading to v9.1 as its fully compatible with W7 x32 and x64. However the backup snapshot portion of the program is gone.

You can still get the backup portion as a separate program called Drive Cloner RX and i think they offer it at a discounted price when you upgrade (please check the site to verify this or contact Support).

I'm glad your drive transplant went well.

[ea3ot]

Im using the version 9.1 for sure. As you say I dont care too much beacouse for backup,s I use Acronis 2010. Many thanks.