80 GB --> 40 GB

[badgolferman]

My current drive setup is primary channel 80GB C: maindrive and 40GB D:
backup. Secondary channel E: CDRW and F: CD-ROM. I have decided this
is backwards since backup images are taking up about 8-10 GB space on
the backup drive and want to make the maindrive the 40 GB and the
backup the 80 GB drive.

I have a third drive that is 40 GB and want to copy the entire C: drive
to the third 40 GB drive and later on copy the D: backup drive to the
original 80 GB drive. My problem is Drive Image 2002 will not restore
an image or copy the 80 GB drive to a smaller 40 GB drive. How can I
get around this? WXP PRO SP1

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I believe you can get around this if you where to create an image file and
save that image file to the hard drive. I now that Norton Ghost allows you
to create an image file which would contain the 80GB image in a compress
version.

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:53:25 -0700, "badgolferman"

|My current drive setup is primary channel 80GB C: maindrive and 40GB D:
|backup. Secondary channel E: CDRW and F: CD-ROM. I have decided this
|is backwards since backup images are taking up about 8-10 GB space on
|the backup drive and want to make the maindrive the 40 GB and the
|backup the 80 GB drive.
high compression =2:1 so u got it right now unless u
wanna save multiple copies.
|
|I have a third drive that is 40 GB and want to copy the entire C: drive
|to the third 40 GB drive and later on copy the D: backup drive to the
|original 80 GB drive. My problem is Drive Image 2002 will not restore
|an image or copy the 80 GB drive to a smaller 40 GB drive. How can I
|get around this? WXP PRO SP1
resize 80gb to say 39gb with 41gb unallocated then
image/copy it.

C Ultimate Backups for Peanuts 4 the ultimate scheme @
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...l+author:ljl269&rnum=7&hl=en#ca121d4a74982f77

HTH-Larry
Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

 

[badgolferman]

I believe you can get around this if you where to create an image
file and save that image file to the hard drive. I now that Norton
Ghost allows you to create an image file which would contain the 80GB
image in a compress version.

Drive Image is essentially the same as Norton Ghost and does the same
thing plus more. Powerquest was bought out by Symantec after D.I.
2002. D.I. also creates images in compressed format and restores them
to hard drives, but I didn't realize it won't restore to a smaller
drive. I even tried the Drive Copy function with the same result.

Have you tried this with Ghost to see if it actually works? I can get
my hands on Ghost 5.1.

 

[badgolferman]

Drive Image is essentially the same as Norton Ghost and does the same
thing plus more. Powerquest was bought out by Symantec after D.I.
2002. D.I. also creates images in compressed format and restores them
to hard drives, but I didn't realize it won't restore to a smaller
drive. I even tried the Drive Copy function with the same result.

Have you tried this with Ghost to see if it actually works? I can get
my hands on Ghost 5.1.

Ghost 2003 did the trick. A disk copy through Ghost was able to make
the necessary adjustments that Drive Image 2002 was unable.

 

[Lil' Dave]

DI2002 won't restore an image XP boot partition properly. At least that
what the PQ tech suppport personnel, and website indicated. No indication
will show any failures doing such a image backup, including using
verification during the image process. Such was the reason for developing
DI 7.0

Cloning (different from an image restore) usually has a same or more space
requirement.