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Backup won't fit
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Posted by: DeadHDVR2/3

For some reason, MFS is telling me the very same backup that I got from a drive won't fit on the drive, anybody out there know what this is about?

Basically, I was trying to upgrade from an A 40GB drive config to a A (40GB) + B (100GB) config. When it went bad (GSOD), I tried to restore to the new 100GB drive and that went fine. So I thought I might explore how to recover the programs on the A drive I had before and decided to attempt a restore from the backup. When I tried, it said it wouldn't fit.

Anybody got some info on this? :D

Michael

Posted by: Robert S

Restoring to the original A drive is a special case. What restore command did you use?

Is the drive locked or detecting as 32Gb?

I don't think you'll get your recordings back, though.

Posted by: captain_video

Make sure you're not using the -s 127 switch in the command line or the image won't fit. You cannot recover any recordings unless you do a direct drive-to-drive copy using the dd command. The target drive must be at least the same size or larger for this to work.