Help cloning a hard drive.

[de8212]

We have a machine at work that we need to clone the hard drive to a new one. I know from memory the machine has ghost 2003. I also know the current hard drive is in three partitions. Can ghsot clone all three prtitions to th new drive or do we somehow have to create three partitions on the new drive before we even start? Been a while since I've used ghost and even then I would only use the image feature.

 

[MustISO]

I'm pretty sure you can just do the entire drive or multiple partitions to the new drive. Just boot with Ghost and create the image. Make sure you test it first before destroying the old drive.

 

[corkyg]

Try booting with Ghost and CLONE. (Imaging is not the same thing, and an image will not boot until restored.} If that doesn't work, go online and get the software made by the HDD's OEM and duplicate the drive. Duplicate = cloning, partitions and all.

 

[de8212]

just a quick update. I am cloning, not imaging.

I cloned C and D to G and H. So now G is a clone of C and H is a clone of D.

When the pc boots there is an error that refers to volume name not matching and pagefile either doesn't exist or too small.


One possible issue is that the new drive is ntfs whereas the old one is fat32. Another difference is the old C partition was alot smaller than the new C (which is actually G). Same goes for old D and new H. I was under the impression that doesn't matter though????

So it gets into the blue win2000 screen and seems to load but then the error pops up.

any other thoughts?

 

[bruceb]

Are you going to use the new drive to replace the old one ? ?
If so, just make the Image of the current drive, then restore
it to the new drive. Swap the new drive into the computer and
that should be all that you need to do.

 

[Navid]

Create an image of C.
Disconnect the drive and connect the new drive.
Restore the image onto the new drive while the old drive is not connected. This must be done through a boot disk.

Now, connect both drives. Go to the BIOS and make sure that the new hard drive is the boot drive and not the old one. If you reboot, you should boot to C on the new drive.
The old C will be given a different drive letter.

If you want to boot to the old drive, you have to switch the boot drive in the BIOS.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: de8212
One possible issue is that the new drive is ntfs whereas the old one is fat32.

That can't be a clone job. A cloned drive is totally identical to the source drive, including format and partitions. If the drives are a different size, you need to clone proportionally or else the new drive will be exactly the same size regardless of the drive size.

Maybe Ghost can't do that - TrueImage does.

 

[Pirotech]

I've cloned hd to a new bigger one. True Image created proportional partitions and i got the identical hd. It is quite simple.