Norton Ghost Personal Editon

[NJLOAD]

I'm trying to cloan two hard drives on the same computer running Win2K with Norton Ghost.
The primary drive is a little bigger than the destination drive but not much. Ghost will not run the process because of this. Is there a way to force the transfer? The destination drive is 40gig and I know the primary drive data will fit. Is there any other way to cloan a drive?

thanks

 

[VicLavigne]

Well, I don't know how you can do it with Ghost. Drive Image will do it, I routinely burn an image of my C: drive (22gb) and store it on my D: partition (8gb).

 

[NJLOAD]

any other ideas on this, I just went to Drive Image web page and the demo won't let you copy drive to drive.

any help appreciated

thanks

 

[danparkcityut]

NULOAD,

It's a long shot, but if you happen to have partition magic you can "reduce" the size of your larger drive just enough to let Ghost do it's thing.

Hope this helps and Good luck

 

[NJLOAD]

any other ideas or software suggestions?

 

[VicLavigne]

Drive Image works well, but you need to pay for a regular version.

 

[forkd]

I use ghost to do this frequently. Boot to ghost and select disk to disk. specify the correct to and from disks and it will only take a few mins.

Depending on the hard drive the manufacturer their website will have the "disk install/utility software" you can download. I have used Western Digital and IBM disk utility downloads with success.

 

[michaelh20]

You could try selecting all the partitions instead of the hd......just a thought

 

[michaelh20]

-FFG | Override the detection of attempts to write
beyond disk's capacity

I see this is the "switches.txt", not quite sure what it does

 

[hakadate]

Try EZE Drive from Western Digital site. or Maxblast from Maxtors site.

 

[EagleKeeper]

IF you wish to spend extra time, use the (source) partition to image option.

Then make a second pass and go image to (target) partition