Restoring from second hard drive
Hello,
This is what I would like to do. Is it possible.
I have two hard drives on my computer.
Drive "C" has the installation of the OS and all of my programs
Drive "D" has all of my documents
I would like to put a backup of Drive "C" on Drive "D"
Now, let's say that Drive "C" fails and needs to be replaced.
I would like to boot from Drive "D" and restore my previous
setup to Drive "C"
Is this possible? What would I need to do to make this happen?
Thank You
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No. What you would and should do is boot from an ati bootcd and restore the backup file on on D: to a new disk in C:'s place. Note that if your have two logical drives but only one physcial harddisk in ypur pc and the hdisk conks out, you won't be able to boot or to access you backups. Bvest to put backups on separate hdisk from the one you are backing up.
If you haven't made a bootcd already, that's the first thing you should do after getting ati up and running.
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Whoops, I missed the line where the OP said he wanted to boot from D:. Nope, you won't boot from D:.
P.S. You should also keep backups of D:, as that is where all your documents reside. You could do this with ATI, or with a separate file-based backup tool as you wish. For me, I'd be more concerned about losing my documents than I would about having to reinstall my OS (if I didn't have an ATI image backup).
Also, I took your word that you have two separate drives, C: and D:. If those are like my own situation, just two partitions of a single drive, then you should image the entire drive and save those .tib backups to an external drive.
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Even if you did set up d: as a bootable drive (say you cloned C: onto it) and you set the bios to use the second harddisk as the boot drive, you still wouldn't be able to boot from d: unless you removed the C" drive immediately after cloning. Why? Windows will not allow two system drives on one pace and if two are present at boot up, it will makr one of them not a system drive and it will no longer be bootable.
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