carryer Posted August 17, 2002 Report Share Posted August 17, 2002 I recently had occasion to use the disaster recovery CD to recover my Win2K system. I was eventually able to get it to work and got my computer restored, but it took 3 tries. The problem was that the restore would fail for lack of disk space on the target partition. This is from an backup made only a few days before and on a drive showing about 300MB free space. Because of the fullness of the drive, the recovery processes necessitated a formatting of the drive, so it should have been completely empty. I was eventually able to get a successful restore by using Partition Magic to resize the NTFS boot partition (up by 500MB) and reducing the swap file to 50MB. My question is this: How much free space should I keep on the boot partition to be sure to be able to use the emergency recovery CD to boot and then restore from a backup image? It seems that I need the full size of the recovered image plus some space for the temporary system. How much is that? thanks ed -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted August 21, 2002 Report Share Posted August 21, 2002 Retrospect needs to install a temporary Operating System in order to start a full system restore from a Disaster Recovery CD. I would recommend having _at least_ 500 mb of free space, in addition to the free space needed to complete the restore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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