Drive Imaging Question

[voogru]

Hello,
I just recieved my 30GB hdd and I Have Partitioned it into a 22GB and a 7GB now I have an GHO Image of my backup drive which i managed to sqeeze onto my 5.99GB drive (its 4.17GB) Norton Ghost diveided into 2 1.99GB files and a One 117MB (3 Files) Now when I try to Image my 7GB partition with the 4.17 Norton Ghost See's One 29000MB hard drive (it wont show any Partitions) I can only copy it too that drive and it will overwrite anything that is on the destination drive.

how can I copy my GHO image onto a Partition?

also about 1 day after I Made the image of my backup drive the BACKUP DRIVE DIED i heard screaching I turned off the system and unpluged the hdd. I didnt take apart the hdd tho.

I cannot loose this data! please help!

thanks...

 

[Souka]

You're asking several questions...let's see if I can help.

1:
The ghost image includes all partitions when you create one....as a result, it restores all partitions and overwrites any partition info on the drive. In otherwords, you can't restore that 4GB image to a 7GB partition. The 4GB image will overwrite the partition info on the 30GB drive....you can resize the final size of the restored partition, but you will still lose any data on that 30GB drive.

2:
Far as the "backup" drive failing....this is your original drive right?
If you can't boot up and get the data off yourself, you're pretty much scr*wed...unless you want to pay a data recovery specialist...figure $200 to just evaluate drive...$100-600 or more for the acutual data recovery (if it's even possible).

2b:
I would recommend,
Since you said a "screeching" noise, you just may have a bearing giving out...you should still be able to get the data off it. First verify you can access the data on the dying drive....if you can, go buy a cheap 7GB drive off e-Bay. Once you get it, restore the IMAGE off the dying 7gb to the "new" 7gb and toss the old 7gb. Use the dying drive as LITTLE as possible....

 

[voogru]

Thanks for the reply..

exacly what i neede too read. Im gonna get a 5400RPM 15GB drive i guess. thanks

 

[AC]

u might want to try powerquest's drive image (maker of partition magic)...it lets u restore images of entire drives, image of partition to partition, image of directory to directory, image of file to file, depending on the settings used...however,the latter compression schemes are less to provide for those options