Win 7 restore

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Hi,

 

I want to restore a win7 system with a C drive and SRP to a larger HD.  I have read the restore instruction in this post - http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-on-Windows-7-to-clone-and-replace-Boot-Drive/m-p/355858/highlight/true

 

and have one question.  The instructions say the target settings for the restore are:

 

SRP  - Primary, active, original disk signature, MBR

C:      - original disk signature

 

When I look in the Disk Manager on the existing machine it says:

 

SRP  - active

C:      -  Bootable and primary  

 

C is bootable and primary which kind of contradicts the restore settings which say SRP is the MBR and Primary.  Is this going to cause me problems?

 

thanks,

dave
 

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ddougherty wrote:

When I look in the Disk Manager on the existing machine it says:

 

SRP  - active

C:      -  Bootable and primary  

 

 

ddougherty,

 

Microsoft defines the System partition as the one containing the booting files. The SRP.

Microsoft defines the Boot partition as the one containing the Windows partition.

 

Others use reverse definitions but your Windows OS uses the Microsoft definitions.

 

Edit.... The SRP is not the MBR. The MBR is outside of all partitions.

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I'm one of the later.  It would have been much better if they called the SRP the boot partition (because it is) and the windows partition the system partition because it hold the operating system.

 

But regardless of Micrsoft being wrong you will have no problems if you follow Brians settings on this page:

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-options-for-recovery/m-p/218202/highlight/true#M21280

 

Go to the section: Restore to a new HD if a SRP is present

 

Dave