Recover to dissimilar hardware

[ultimate_live]

Hi.
I´m interested in Terabyte for Windows. But I have a question.
Can I recover Image to dissimilar hardware, and also other harddrives or ssd drives ?
Now Im using a Seagate 320 GB with only one partition, and later I want to create na image of my OS, to recover to another harddrive with 500 Gb.
Is it possible ?
Can I us the software also for virtual machines, or migrating from virtual to physical drives ?

[TeraByte Support(PP)]

Yes, you can recover to different hardware and/or drives. You can use either the OSDTOOL or TBIDTOOL script to add the necessary drivers after restoring.

To restore to a larger drive you have a couple of choices. If the backup of the original drive was of the entire drive you can just select the "Scale to Fit" option to have the partitions automatically resized to fit the new drive. Otherwise, if restoring single partitions you can specify the new larger size.

You can restore to a virtual disk or boot into the VM and run the restore just like on a physical machine. You can also use the CopyP2V script to convert a physical system to a virtual system. Migrating from a VM to a physical system would be the same as restoring to different hardware.

[TeraByte Support]

BTW - a different hard drive isn't really "dissimilar hardware", when that
term is used, it typically means a different storage controller or
motherboard (basically where windows doesn't have the drivers it needs
already installed).

"ultimate_live" wrote in message news:5759@public.image...

Hi.
I?m interested in Terabyte for Windows. But I have a question.
Can I recover Image to dissimilar hardware, and also other harddrives or ssd
drives ?
Now Im using a Seagate 320 GB with only one partition, and later I want to
create na image of my OS, to recover to another harddrive with 500 Gb.
Is it possible ?
Can I us the software also for virtual machines, or migrating from virtual
to physical drives ?

[ultimate_live]

Talking about harddrive, I had a problem some years ago.
I made an image of my OS (58GB) from a 160 GB harddrive, and restored the image into a 320 GB harddrive. after restoring, My harddrive had shown only a 160 GB drive and not a 320 GB drive. I think it was made a clone of my first harddrive. Will terabyte only restore my 58 GB images and let the others GB as free space ?

[TeraByte Support(PP)]

Was that system an older Dell? Those caused problems like that because of how they configured their drives.

If you restore a partition that's 58GB in size it will be that size on the new drive and the remaining space will be unallocated (unless used already by other partitions). Of course, if the partition was resized as part of the restore it will end up a different size.

[TeraByte Support]

If you don't use scaling it won't attempt to change the size on restore.

"ultimate_live" wrote in message news:5763@public.image...

Talking about harddrive, I had a problem some years ago.
I made an image of my OS (58GB) from a 160 GB harddrive, and restored the
image into a 320 GB harddrive. after restoring, My harddrive had shown only
a 160 GB drive and not a 320 GB drive. I think it was made a clone of my
first harddrive. Will terabyte only restore my 58 GB images and let the
others GB as free space ?

[DrTeeth]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:18:24 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
ultimate_live disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>Can I recover Image to dissimilar hardware, and also other harddrives or ssd drives ?
Yes. The later the version of windows the better it will be. I once
has to swap in and out motherboards and CPUs many times one a
fortnight, and my retail version of Win 7 did not miss a beat. Used it
for a further 2 yrs and then went x64.
--

Cheers,

DrT

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