Norton Ghost

[crazychicken]

I have a 10gb drive w/ only 1gb of stuff that i need to get onto a 6gb drive.

ghost will not let me do this

any one know of another program?

also, this is for a laptop, how do i get 2 drives in at once?

thanks
david

 

[serialb]

I don't quite understand what you are trying to do here, but can't you just move your stuff thru your LAN to a desktop first, then move it to your new drive?

 

[crazychicken]

hmm that might be a good idea... is there anyway to make an image over a network?

see the idea is to not have to reinstall windows while installing my new hdd

thanks
david

 

[wjsulliv]

Ghost will do an image of TCP/IP to another drive. But you have to have compatable cards or dos drivers and some ability to treak the files.

As far as two drives inside a laptop, I don't think you can do that.

What exactly are you trying to do? Downgrade a 10gb hard drive to a 6 and keep the 1 gb of good data? Or are you trying to transfer 1 gb from a desktop to a laptop?

 

[artemedes]

Do you have a CD-burner?

If so then I would make an image using fast compression (1gb should still fit on a single cd). Then copy the ghost executable and the image to the cd. and boot with a win98se boot disk. or even make the CD bootable.


Then not only can you transfer via the cd, but you have a backup.

 

[crazychicken]

hmm those are good ideas.

however, don't have a cd burner in the laptop

i apologize for being unclear

i have a 10 gb drive in a laptop. i need to replace it w/ a 6gb, and not reinstall anything. the laptop does not have a burner.

the tcp/ip sounds the best, but what does "treak the files" mean?

just a little more input and i should be good to go

thanks
david

 

[BabeAtBzBoyz]

you can ghost your original image, after it's been defragged onto the network, make the bootable floppy disk, reboot with the floppy disk, which has the network drivers installed on it, then image from the network to the new 6 gb HD. ghost is not the most user friendly, and it depends on which version you're working with. Get the newest version, go to the website for examples of the code that's most applicable to your situation, and copy it onto the bat file that you'll be running on the floppy disk. Good luck, I remember trying to use Ghost on earlier user-vicious version. The new one isn't too clear. I'm not sure that symantic's purchase of it made it any easier to use!!!