Hard disc backup not working

[Greekie]

Hello eveyone,
I'm from Greece & i have a problem with my pc.
I had 2 drivers
Main one, C: (40GB) has a partition about 15GB.
When i decided to upgrade my pc(new tower with everything new exept the hard discs & the DVR-RW) i made a backup of the C: (not the partition) with nero backitup version 1.2.0.62.

After my hard drivers were moved to the new tower i tried to put the backup but it doesn't work...
When i boot from the DVD i receive this info (among other which i don't have time to see & write it down)

FD 1.44MB system type -(13)
Starting Caldera DR-DOS


Press 1-3

1.Enable maximum memory
2.Load USB/FW ODD driver
3.Load all drivers

(And whatever number i press i get the same outcome)


Driver not found 'MSCD001'
Driver not found 'USBCD001'
A:\DRDOS\NWCDEX.EXE requires a DRIVER name to be specified.
Completed codepage prepare function.
Completed codepage select function.

NLSFUNC R4.00 National Language Support
Copyright (c) 1988,1998 Caldera Inc. All rights reserved

Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
Copyright (c) 1976,1998 Caldera Inc.

NRestore Autorun. Copyright Ahead Software 2003.
Searching for NRestore
CD-ROM device not found
Search failed.
Exiting
[DR-DOS] A:\>


& the cersor is there & waiting & if i don't restart the pc (not from dvd) it doesn't do anything.

The motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA- P35C-DS3
with INTEL CORE 2 DUO E6550 2.33 GHZ LGA775-1333
& the DVD is
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM-GSA-H22N



Any /ideashelp???

 

[DelJo63]

Classic issue for backups vs. restore.

You need to INSTALL a new system first,
then RESTORE portions of the backup (specifically the \VolumeInfo stuff)
then restore from a Restore Point (to recover the old registry).

Now you should be able to restore your \Documents & Settings stuff and the
\Programs

 

[Greekie]

What do you mean install a new system??
& how i restore specific portions?

Yes you can shoot me now, i'm pretty much a newbie...

 

[Samstoned]

yet still another great software from ahead
what you need is to install a fresh OS then copy from backup what you need to have the system they way it was before , with different hardware
the (new)system if not the same as old will/may need new(different drivers)???

 

[Greekie]

I do have windows xp home edition(the same i had before) running fine in the new hardware.
As for copying from the backups, all dvds have 4 files(each) in .dat extension exept the first one that also has NRESTORE.EXE(it opens but i don't get c: or any other letter before G:, NRESTORE.CFG & NRES_ENG which is an outlook file along with more versions of the same file for different languages.
Meaning i can't actually see what i'll be copying.

 

[whitelatte]

this might be a bit redundancy, last time i wanted to transfer my files to my new hdd. i setup my machine (installed with OS and so on) then the old HDD, i make it a SLAVE and plug it in. Then i can slowly copy all my data out. After that you decide to format you old hdd or not.

I might sound dumb, but work fine for me. (at least i don't have to be bothered by those old craps i have in my machine)