NORTON GHOST 2005 !!!--- BIG PROBLEM!!!

[padingle]

I have a samsung x30 laptop that orginally came with a 60GB hard drive.

i have bought a bigger 120GB toshiba hard drive.


Basically i used Norton Ghost's 'copy drive' feature to copy everything

(including the OS) to this new drive. i obviously pressed a wrong
option when doing the wizard. so now when i go into my computer i find
2 NTFS hard drives-one the original and one the new.


IMPORTANT:- since its a laptop there is only one slot for a hard drive
so the other new one is externally connected.


as i was saying--, i found 2 HD's in my computer. but the new one which

was meant to be 120GB said that it was only 60GB. i assumed that i
pressed an option in the norton wizard that was wrong so i formatted
this disk using DOS.


And now the disk is still the same, obviously now its empty because i
formatted it but i can still find it in 'my computer' saying that its
capacity is 60GB.


PLEASE HELP ME.


BASICALLY WHAT I WANT TO END UP WITH ONE HARD DRIVE (WHEN I GO INTO 'MY

COMPUTER') WHICH HAS A CAPACITY OF 120GB

 

[bxf]

No, I don't think this qualifies as a big problem, so let me assure you
that you do not have a tragedy. Relax a bit, and a solution will be
found

I have a samsung x30 laptop that orginally came with a 60GB hard drive.

i have bought a bigger 120GB toshiba hard drive.


Basically i used Norton Ghost's 'copy drive' feature to copy everything

(including the OS) to this new drive. i obviously pressed a wrong
option when doing the wizard. so now when i go into my computer i find
2 NTFS hard drives-one the original and one the new.


IMPORTANT:- since its a laptop there is only one slot for a hard drive
so the other new one is externally connected.
as i was saying--, i found 2 HD's in my computer. but the new one which

was meant to be 120GB said that it was only 60GB. i assumed that i
pressed an option in the norton wizard that was wrong so i formatted
this disk using DOS.


And now the disk is still the same, obviously now its empty because i
formatted it but i can still find it in 'my computer' saying that its
capacity is 60GB.

Not that this is particularly important, but it is difficult to
understand. If you formatted it, then you have no OS. How do you still
have My computer?

PLEASE HELP ME.


BASICALLY WHAT I WANT TO END UP WITH ONE HARD DRIVE (WHEN I GO INTO 'MY

COMPUTER') WHICH HAS A CAPACITY OF 120GB

I haven't used Ghost 2005 so I can't provide intructions on how to use
it to achieve what you want, though I expect it is possible. I'd guess
there is an option with Ghost to specify the size of the target
partition, directly or indirectly. But, if you have Partition Magic (or
similar product) you can ADD/DELETE/RESIZE your partitions to your
heart's content after the fact. There are several other products that
enable you to manipulate partitions.

 

[Richard Urban]

You copy the computer drive to the new hard drive. When done, turn off the
computer. Don't be tempted to restart it to see how you did. Take out the
old drive and install the new drive. Now boot up the computer.You will have
only one operating system installed.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Bob Harris]

I have played with earlier versions of GHOST, although not 2005 (version
10?).

These had two distinct options, image and clone. Image made a compressed
copy of the hard drive (or partition). Clone made an exact copy of the
entire hard drive. You probably want the clone option.

Further, older GHOSTs had an option for a bit-by-bit copy (even copied free
space), which I once foolishly used to image a 10Gig disk then restore to a
40 Gig disk. That resulted in only 10 Gig of the 40 Gig disk being used.
In older-Ghost-speak that was the -IA option. My solution was to use
Partition Magic to make a partition out of the 30 Gig of unused space, then
move some ersonal file there. Eventually, I also used PM to resize
partitions.

What I should have done was NOT specified the bit-by-bit copy. If you read
the GHOST manual (likely a PDF file, not paper these days), look for an
option that sounds like it proportionally expands each partition, so that
the entire new hard drive is used. I later discovered that my version of
GHOST had such an option, but I failed to use it.

Next, do NOT boot the PC with boot drives attached, as that can lead to
trouble. Attached only the new one, in place of the old one, be sure that
its jumper is set to master (or sometimes cable select), then boot the PC.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

It sounds like you booted the laptop with both drives connected. To clone a
boot drive to an new larger drive, you usually need to disconnect the older
drive before booting with the newer drive.

 

[padingle]

sorry for the apparent stupidity.

but how do i set this drive to master!!! probably have without
knowing.

anyway, i have cloned the drive and i have tried booting the machine
with just the new hard drive attached, - it dosn't even go to the
windowsXP boot screen. it stops before that and says something about
Boot configuration or something, and that the computer doesn;t
recognise something....

i went in to BIOS to see if any apprpriate functions or options could
enlighten me but i couldn't find anyhting.

i might not have copied over a boot file or something, but i must have
since i made norton ghost clone the 'whole' drive (C. if i didn't
copy over that ever important boot file is there anyway i can?
!!!???!!!???!!!!?????

ANY HELP WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED!!!!!!

 

[neil]

You may have to carry out a repair install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

although some more knowledgeable person may know different.
Neil