Norton Ghost + 2 hdds

[SWScorch]

My 60GB IBM drive is on its last legs, so I bought a Maxtor 60GB to replace it. Both are partitioned into a 20GB and a 40GB partition. Currently both are hooked up to my ATA100 controller on my mobo. (Asus A7V) I installed Norton Ghost 2001 (my first time using it, and I dont have a manual) and created a boot disk. I booted on said disk and went about ghosting the 20GB partition from my IBM hdd onto a ghost image on the 20GB MAxtor partition. Then I went back to ghost the 40GB IBM partition onto the 40GB Maxtor partition. But, heres whats odd; Ghost wont see the 40GB Maxtor partition. I select the 40GB IBM partition as the source partition, then, in the destination partition, I cant even see either 40GB partition... Is there a reason for this? Or does anyone know why this is happening from this information? thanx

 

[neil]

im really not sure, but i know that ghost cant write to partitions formated in NTFS.

You can backup a NTFS partitions/drive but the destination drive must be fat32.

If your just cloning from one drive to another, (which i am guessing that you are doing)
i think it doesnt matter what the file system is.

sorry if this doesnt help.

Try looking in the program folder where ghost is installed, there should be a ghostpe.pdf hlp file.


-neil

 

[oldfart]

Instead of cloning partitions, clone the disk. From Ghost do a disk-->to disk.

 

[ROJAS]

Oldfart is correct. You should redo with disk to disk. I did that and it works just fine.

 

[samgau]

When you ghosted the 20gb partition, you effectively nuked the 40gb partition... you have to do disk to disk...

As for the fat, as you are booting with a win98 boot disk...you can write ghost images only to fat32 partitions... but you can ghost quite a few file systems.. fat16, fat32,NTFS, EXT2 and EXT3....

 

[SWScorch]

Aha I see. thanx for the replies; this is all very new to me and I effectively have no idea what I am doing. I did format the Maxtor drive using a Win98 boot disk, so it is FAT32. So this means that my problem was that I ghosted to the Maxtor 20GB? So, if I just delete the ghost files on there and do a disk->disk copy it should work? thanx again

Wait, OldFart said I should do a Disk-> Disk copy Instead of partition copying? Does this that it would partition it for me? In other words, will it work, since I already have the Maxtor partitioned to the proper proportions?

 

[oldfart]

Yes, it will partition it for you. You dont need to create partitions when using Ghost. Since both are 60 Gig drives, it makes it easy. Just have it use the same partition size. You'll understand once you run it.

 

[Stark]

You can image NTFS drives, it just has to be to the exact same size partition.

Ex. if you have an 8GB drive and you're ghosting to a 20GB drive, you have to make the partition size on the new drive 8GB.

 

[SWScorch]

Okay I think I got it to work... I just booted on the new drie, and so far all of my applications work flawlessly. many thanx to all for your help!