Resolved Imaging a new Hard Drive

Just your basic hypothetical-- You have religiously stored an image on an external drive for years. Finally, the drive crashes. You install a new drive and with the system boot disk you created after the imaging process, you navigate to the external and install it? I seem to remember from many many years ago, new drives had to fixdisked first or something like that. Any comment from the well versed?

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Hi elcajongunsfan, I have purchased both HDD and SSD during the last 18 months and just installed in the comp and run the OS from burned disc - did not have to FDISK. Neil.

 

If you are restoring from an image file, you don't need to do anything. Most free imaging programs do not even allow you to edit the partition size. The original partition size would be created automatically.

 

Yeah, I'm thinking of the days when there was a program called ontrack that you had to use to setup a drive before installing an O/S.

Thanks all

 

Pretty near all electronic gear these days is RTU (ready to use) except some users don't read the Manual first. Neil.