I've been using IFW v. happily on Win XP. Now I'm trying the
eval. version on a completely new Win 7 machine. It works
great, with the exception that I cannot get mount points to
clone correctly, when cloning one identical disk to another.
(Windows mount points are new to me, but they seem to be the
way to go, especially for servers. I'm just experimenting at
this stage.)
The following is a description of what has succeeded and what
is failing.
Hardware
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HP Elite 7300 Desktop
w/ LSI MegaRaid SAS 9240-4i configured as JBOD
Disk 0 (900 GB 2.5" SAS Seagate)
Sys 102 MB
OS (C:) 108 GB (Boot, Page, etc)
(V:) 195 GB Logical Drive
519 GB Free space
(H:) 14.5 GB Recovery
Software
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Windows 7 Professional, SP 1, latest trial IFW
Test steps
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Step 1
Add a New disk, identical to Disk 0, and clone Disk 0
to New disk.
Step 2
Configure New disk so that the partition corresponding to V:
contains all the data in 'C:'\Users, using robocopy. Make C:\Users
(where 'C:' is the partition on the New disk corresponding to
'C:' on Disk 0) empty (by renaming then mkdir \Users) and then
mount partition under N:\Users.
Step 3
Shutdown, and replace Disk 0 with New disk. Reboot.
Everything works perfectly. The V: partition is mounted at C:\Users
exactly as intended. All apps. work OK.
Step 4
Clone New disk to original Disk 0.
This clone does not seem to work correctly. The mount point is
not cloned. Instead an additional mount point is added to the
corresponding partition in the clone-from disk (a bug? The clone-from
disk partition config shouldn't be changed in any way?). No mount
point is included in the target clone disk. This disk won't boot,
not surprisingly. Well, it boots, but logins don't work ...
I'm light-years away from being any kind of expert, and would be
very grateful for any advice/help in fixing this (i.e. Step 4). Maybe
Windows mount points aren't supported?
BTW I've checked the nice IFW PDF docs, but cannot find any reference
to this topic.
With thanks and regards,
Rick