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Need major help ghosting

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skeedo

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Ok, so I have Ghost 9 and a new 200GB wd drive. My current C: is a 60gb that I would like to replace with the 200gb. I also have an 80GB F: drive that may be crashed out, either way I would like to partition the 200GB into C: and F: drive, and clone my current 60GB to the new C: partition.

Where I need help:

How do I make 2 partitions for the 200GB drive in Windows 2000? In disk management I found where to format/ allocate the drive but I don't see anything to let you split it into partitions.

Secondly, do I want to assign drive letters before the clone, or should I just choose 'Do not assign a drive letter or path' ?

And lastly, to clone I go into Ghost and use 'copy one drive to another', then what? Do I shut down, switch jumpers, and thats it? I read something about your registry being annihilated if you boot up with 2 clones of your OS, is this true? Will I have to wipe out the old drive before rebooting?

Any help will be greatly appreciated cuz I have this 200GB drive sitting here doing nothing!
 
"How do I make 2 partitions for the 200GB drive in Windows 2000? In disk management I found where to format/ allocate the drive but I don't see anything to let you split it into partitions."
You should be able to copy your existing OS drive to the 200GB drive as a partition copy, not a disk copy, then reset your jumpers on the new drive as master and the 60GB drive as slave. Then copy your 80GB onto the remaining space on the 200GB drive.

"Secondly, do I want to assign drive letters before the clone, or should I just choose 'Do not assign a drive letter or path' ?"

The method I suggested above will take care assigning your C drive. If your 80GB drive is simply data storage, the drive letter shouldn't matter.

"I read something about your registry being annihilated if you boot up with 2 clones of your OS, is this true? Will I have to wipe out the old drive before rebooting?"

As long as your jumpers are set properly, two clones of your OS will not wipe out your registry. The computer will only boot to the Master drive on the Primary controller (for an IDE setup anyway.)

alzan
 
Ok I'm attempting this but when I do copy drive in Ghost, Set drive active (for booting OS) is greyed out. Why?
 
Ok I found out it was because my new drive was set as dynamic, so I reverted it to basic and I can now set as active partition. I am going to attempt this as soon as somebody tells me my process looks good:

1) In Ghost, copy c: to f: (f: will be new c: drive)
Use following options:
-check source and destination file system for errors
-set drive active
-copy MBR

2) After drive is cloned over, shutdown computer, change jumper on F: to master, jumper on C: to slave

3) Reboot, and hopefully thats it? I have 2 partitions on the new drive, that won't cause any conflicts will it?

Somebody tell me if this looks good please....since you can only have one active partition, i don't want to screw this up because if I set the new to active and it doesn't work right I'll be screwed because I won't be able to get back in and change the old one back to active.





 
Originally posted by: skeedo
Ok I found out it was because my new drive was set as dynamic, so I reverted it to basic and I can now set as active partition. I am going to attempt this as soon as somebody tells me my process looks good:

1) In Ghost, copy c: to f: (f: will be new c: drive)
Use following options:
-check source and destination file system for errors
-set drive active
-copy MBR

2) After drive is cloned over, shutdown computer, change jumper on F: to master, jumper on C: to slave

3) Reboot, and hopefully thats it? I have 2 partitions on the new drive, that won't cause any conflicts will it?

Somebody tell me if this looks good please....since you can only have one active partition, i don't want to screw this up because if I set the new to active and it doesn't work right I'll be screwed because I won't be able to get back in and change the old one back to active.
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I suggest you simply boot into DOS-based Ghost, ghost the 60G drive onto the 200G drive, using a partition size of, say, 60G, and leave the rest of the drive untouched. Confirm the 60g partition of the 200g drive boots, then use disk management in XP to format the remaining portion of the drive as required.
 
How do I boot into DOS Ghost...if I boot from my Ghost CD it just starts some recovery console thing, no mention of Ghost anywhere.
 
Ghost 8 has a boot disk maker that will handle the entire thing for you. I suggest taking a quick look at the documentation included with your product.
 
In any case, however you do it, use Ghost to ghost the data from the source to the destination drive, but only use 60G or so on the destination drive, and then use disk management (once booted into Windows on the new drive) to put the other partition in place.
 
And lastly, to clone I go into Ghost and use 'copy one drive to another', then what?
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Not sure what version I have, or even if it makes any diff.. But the clone operation is under "advanced features". Select that and you'll see clone. My version came with a tutorial on the disk (no printed documentation/instructions). I recommend you go though it.

Fern
 
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