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Hello all! Quick question for you guys. I recently purchased a brand new 1TB hard drive to replace my main OS hard drive as it was running low on space. I created a backup of my OS system several months ago, and I want to use that backup as my new OS system on the new hard drive I purchased.

My question is, given the two options of performing a sector by sector restore or not, which should I choose and why? What's the difference between the two options? When I made my OS system backup months ago, I can't remember if I performed a sector by sector backup. So, in this case, which kind of restore do I want to perform?

If it matters, I am upgrading from a 500GB hard drive to a 1TB hard drive. The 500GB hard drive has 331.5GB of data stored on it out of a formatted 465GB (roughly).

Thanks for the help! =)

ven 15/04/2011 - 22:12
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I'd just do a regular restore not a sector by sector. I assume it will work even if the backup is a sector by sector or it may revert to a sector by sector restore automatically - I've never used sector by sector. My understanding is that the sector by sector will replace the data back into the sector addresses that originally contained the data. A regular TI restore does not necessarily put the data back into the same sectors but after the restore makes adjustments to the filesystem to reflect any "moved" sectors. Often this results in a reasonably defragmented disk.

The main idea behind sector by sector is to backup the whole partition including unused space. The reason for doing this is for cases where the OS is not supported or it is corrupted such that TI can't make sense of the structure on disk. TI runs at a low level directly accessing secotrs when making an image backup and tends to avoid the file system because file system accesses are slow. However, it does have to use the filesystem to understand the structure. In earlier versions TI would do a sector by sector backup if it for any reason found the filesystem unrecognizeable. Then the option was included to permit the user to force a sector by sector backup.

Since you have the 500GB disk and the new TB disk there really isn't much of a risk since you can always go back to your 500GB drive if you have problems.

sam 16/04/2011 - 02:15