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Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: tkor on February 28, 2005, 03:24:03 PM: I have as a primary drive a 4Gig which is close to full.
I want to use Norton Ghost to clone the contents to a new drive that is larger, after which I will either slave the old drive or get rid of it.
Does anyone know if I clone the old drive over, am I limited to a 4Gig partition, or will I be able to use the whole drive/
I run Win98SE.
Thanks for any help guys:aok
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: straffo on February 28, 2005, 03:41:01 PM: Should not be a problem, what is the size of the new disk ?
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: tkor on February 28, 2005, 03:56:56 PM: Thanks, Straffo,
new drive is about 15Gig I think.
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: straffo on February 28, 2005, 04:09:36 PM: Shouldn't be a problem so.

Be sure anyway to do a backup before transferring your date and above all double-check the destination drive of the copy.

I once make the transfert in the wrong direction and was pretty pissed :D
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: maddog on February 28, 2005, 10:15:02 PM: 4 gig?

15 gig?

Those are bronze age drives.......
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: Hajo on February 28, 2005, 10:42:47 PM: Straffo hit it on the head.....should be no problem. Ghost is a wonderful program......sure beats the heck outta reloading a new HD.
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: tkor on March 01, 2005, 10:27:33 AM: Thanks Hajo and Straffo.

As for the bronze age, it's a nostalgia thing, I was born in the bronze age! :lol
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: Xjazz on March 02, 2005, 02:04:53 AM: Hi,

Little bit OT but...

You can get a free drive image program, PartImage (http://www.partimage.org) with Knoppix Live CD (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html). Well, the PartImage homepage mention something about the possible problems with NTFS drives. I didn't test this yet with my WinXP but I will.

If your HD wont start anymore and everything seems to be lost, don’t worry. You just boot your PC from Knoppix CD and you have running Linux with tons of all kind of programs available. It wont touch your hard-drive(s) content at all but you can read those.
Now, let diagnostic started.

A small Knoppix manual (http://www.linux-forensics.com/forensics/knoppixManual.pdf) in pdf format (1.7M/19pages).

“How to use Knoppix to replace at least $100 worth of must-have utilities” (http://dfarq.homeip.net/article/20041124100837413).

Security Knoppix (http://www.knoppix-std.org/) version for IT professionals.

"Dont leave home without it" :)
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: Heater on March 02, 2005, 04:41:29 AM: Use ghost and go to the advance settings, clone the drive and then boot from the new drive, should not be a problem

I just did the same thing from a 40GB IDE to 200 GB ATA and it worked with out problems
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: BBQ_Bob on March 02, 2005, 10:29:09 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Heater
Use ghost and go to the advance settings, clone the drive and then boot from the new drive, should not be a problem

I just did the same thing from a 40GB IDE to 200 GB ATA and it worked with out problems

I know that Windows will only see 137 GB of the 200 Gig disk, so what did you use to expand it?
What I did was make the extra 63 gigs an extra partition.
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: Kev367th on March 02, 2005, 11:37:16 PM: Microsoft has an updated verison of fdisk you could have used to partition it.

You using XP?
If so must be an XP thing Win2000 had no problems recognizing my 240Gb SATA RAID 0 (2x120Gb).
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: Heater on March 03, 2005, 02:43:08 AM: Quote
Originally posted by BBQ_Bob
I know that Windows will only see 137 GB of the 200 Gig disk, so what did you use to expand it?
What I did was make the extra 63 gigs an extra partition.

Check Here to enable it:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
Title: "Ghosting" a complete drive
Post by: tkor on March 03, 2005, 07:59:27 AM: Did the clone yesterday, and it worked perfectly, no problems whatsoever. May just be my imagination, but the game seems to be somewhat smoother (i.e., fewer stutters) with the extra speed of the 7200RPM drive.