i am upgrading a friend's Gateway system w/ a bigger hdd. it is a full blown Gateway sys. that never been reformatted, has all the low-level proprietary Gateway BS, etc. (oddly having ghosted close to 100 drives at this point in my career, i realized i had never done it on an untouched Gateway or Dell).
i ghosted drive to drive from his old 10gig to a new 30gig and wasn't prompted by ghost to enter a size which i thought was odd, but went ahead, and it ended up copying just the size of the old drive, with the remaining 20gigs of the new being unallocated.
the lack of an ability to enter a size in ghost now made sense, but i figured i would just resize using Partition Magic - no go, it won't let me. i am guessing that Gateway writes some sort of proprietary MBR on their drives. my inclination is to fdisk /mbr and ghost partition to partition.
any ideas.
i ghosted drive to drive from his old 10gig to a new 30gig and wasn't prompted by ghost to enter a size which i thought was odd, but went ahead, and it ended up copying just the size of the old drive, with the remaining 20gigs of the new being unallocated.
the lack of an ability to enter a size in ghost now made sense, but i figured i would just resize using Partition Magic - no go, it won't let me. i am guessing that Gateway writes some sort of proprietary MBR on their drives. my inclination is to fdisk /mbr and ghost partition to partition.
any ideas.
Afaik, nothing is proprietary about the hard drive setup.
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