Re: [Thinkpad] Acronis Vista restore & "generic volume installed"alert?

naw, if the OS on disk is exactly the same as it was before, then I wouldn't
expect it to suddenly be put into a state in which it now thinks it sees new
hardware -- restoring an image, at least as I understand it, should restore
the disk to what it was when I saved it -- and when I saved it, it wasn't
alterting me to a new "generic volume"...

-Scott

> It finds new hardware because you have cloned the hard drive, but the new
> hard drive has not actually run XP before, so it is new hardware to the
> system. think about it.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Matthews" <scott@turnstyle.com>
> To: "Michael Geary" <Mike@Geary.com>; <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Acronis Vista restore & "generic volume
> installed"alert?
>
>
> > So this strikes me as a puzzle -- if the restore it supposed to bring
the
> > drive back to exactly where it was, why would it all of a sudden
register
> > this difference?
> >
> > One detail: when I've restored, I haven't restored the MBR (just the
> > partition), as my understanding is that isn't necessary (I've been
> > imaging/restoring the same drive/partition). Also, it only does this
some
> > times, not every time I restore...
> >
> > Weird, eh? -Scott
> >
> >
> >
> > > I've seen something like that, if not the exact same thing. With both
XP
> > and
> > > Vista, whenever I move a system to a new hard drive, on the first boot
> it
> > > says it has found new hardware and wants me to reboot. I don't recall
> > > anything about a "generic volume", though.
> > >
> > > This happens whether I image or clone the drive, and regardless of
what
> > > program I use to copy it. It happens even if the new drive is the
exact
> > same
> > > model as the old.
> > >
> > > Other than the slight annoyance of one extra reboot, it's never seemed
> to
> > > cause a problem.
> > >
> > > -Mike
> > >
> > > > From: Scott Matthews
> > > >
> > > > Hi all, on two occasions, I've restored a Vista image to my
> > > > drive, booted into the OS, and been greeted with a new
> > > > hardware "generic volume installed"
> > > > alert.
> > > >
> > > > But when I saved the image, there would have been no such
> > > > alert (ie, I had booted with nothing attached, shut down, and
> > > > saved the image).
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas what that's all about?
> > >
> >
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Received on Fri Nov 23 16:20:29 2007