Replacing then restoring secondary drive
First I will state that I did read the manual about this. And I am a longtime Ghost user and have done several cold metal restores with SSR2013 but this would be my first restore from within the windows SSr2013 GUI environment.
So I want to use an image (I just can't get used to this "restore point" language). Anyway, I want to make an image of my non-OS second drive. Then replace it with a larger capacity drive, and restore the image to that drive. And not touch my C drive. If it helps, all of my backups are done by drive. I don't backup multiple drives in one backup job.
I have incremental backups of the drive in question and my plan is to make a clean....restore point....right before pulling the drive.
Then I plan to put in the bigger drive, load up SSR and run a restore of that specific restore point to the new drive and expand the unused capacity.
However....I look in the manual and it starts with "recover my computer"....and pick the drive, etc. etc. Choosing "restore my computer" when I have Drive C and secondary drive images lying around is a scary choice!
I just want the easiest way to select that newest backup and then point it to the new drive for a restore for JUST my secondary drive. I know I need to check the box that expands the new drive to its full capacity which comes up at some point.
But if someone could please let me know the correct menu entry point to just select that one restore point/image and then give me a prompt as to where to restore it TO, and check the box to expand the drive, that would be great.
The manual in that secondary drive area is just very weak.
Also, since I am restoring an image, any suggested housekeeping? Maybe run CHSDSK after the restore?
Thanks,
BJB
Yes, you should see all the usual options available for restore once you have chosen the target disk.
If this resolves your issue, please remember to mark this thread as solved so that others can see there is a solution here.
Thanks.