Any way to Ghost 2 smaller hard drives into 1 big one?

[tom3]

I have a computer with 2 small drives, each with 2~3 partitions. I'd like to copy everything over (keeping the partitions) to a bigger drive, but couldnt find how to do it in Ghost.

As far as i know, I can only make a image from one disk at a time?

 

[BeHeMOTH]

well you can try to copy the partitions to the bigger drive and then use Partition magic 5.0 to merge them into 1 partition. Make sure your using the same FAT or NTFS. I don't think you can merge a FAT16 and FAT32 partition together.

 

[Wizkid]

You are correct, there is no way to do this in ghost. Like BeHeMOTH said, you could use Partition Magic to do this...

 

[Mday]

can't you set up the new drive into the total number of partitions in those 2 drives, and do partition to partition?

 

[tom3]

actually, Mday your idea sounds good!
i guess i hestitated to do so because i do have a mixture of different formats on these drives, and dual boot win98/nt. so didnt want to mess it up..

but i suppose copying partition to partition unto the new drive would not do anything to the 2 old small drives.. so i guess i always have a safe net to fall back on..

as far as partition magic.. i dont have that software and dont really feel like buying it.. so.. that's out of my reach. =)

thanks guys for your suggestions!!

 

[subman]

A while back a friend upgraded 2 4.3GB drives to one 20GB drive... I used fdisk to first partition the 20GB drive to 2 partitions of 10GB each and then I did a partition to partition copy with Ghost from the old to the new. The 20gb drive has worked perfectly since the last 2 months.