Ghost a 20gig drive, restore on a 40gig drive

[mitchelt]

My primary drive is making a bunch of weird noises and I feel it is going to die soon.

Is it possible to Ghost the primary drive (a 20gig IBM) to the secondary drive, buy a new Maxtor drive that is larger than 20gig, swap it out with the questionable primary drive and restore the ghost image?

I'm wondering if ghost cares that the image was made on a 20gig drive, and is being installed on a 40-60gig drive?

Thanks!

Mitch

 

[WarCon]

You can just copy partition to partition with Norton's ghost without making the image if you can get them both in the same machine at the same time. But there is no problem restoring an image to a different size drive (especially if you only ghosted the partition and not the drive (might expect same partitions).

No I just used ghost to copy my 20gig maxtor to my new 80gig WD. But you don't have to use an image to do so unless thats the only way you can.

Don't forget to make the first partition on the new drive active or it won't boot.

 

[corkyg]

The easiest way to clone any drive to any other drive up to 80 GB, where the data will fit, is DriveCopy 4.0. I do that all the time - 20 to 40, 40 to 80, 40 to 30, 30 to 20, - - - - as long as the data on the source is totally smaller than the size of the target - no problem. Partitions - no problem. File system, no problem. Restoration - not required. You can even use a brand new cherry HDD - no FDISK or FORMAT necessary. And for half the price of Ghost.

 

[MedicBob]

If he already has Ghost why buy a Drive Image? just connect the new HD as slave, with the old one as master. Boot into ghost with a Ghost boot disk select disk to disk copy. Select source disk, old, to new disk, new. Press enter and all set. i just switched from an 80 Gig to a 40 Gig today and it went flawlessly, 15 minutes for 28.9 Gigs of data.

After you are done, check the warrenty on the old drive.

 

[mitchelt]

Thank you ALL for the great advice.

Turns out Maxtor drives come with a utility to copy an entire hard drive.

Thanks!

Mitch

 

[WarCon]

If you check back here mitchelt, I have used that software awhile ago and it seemed a little slow to me.

How long did it take for your drive to copy? Ghost was surprisingly fast 7gigs of NTFS on my C: took 8 minutes and 7gigs of data and MP3's on my D: took less than 5 minutes.

 

[mitchelt]

WarCon,

It tool FOREVER to copy the files!

Next time I will try Ghost.

Mitch