Norton/Symantec Ghost Question

[Bobby77501]

I have a 20GB drive (with programs) and want to copy it onto a brand new
40GB hard drive so I have more drive space. The original is formatted in
NTFS. If I attempt this, will I end up with a 40GB drive entirely formatted
in NTFS with all my programs from the 20GB drive in working order?
Thanks.....

Bobby

 

[Durand]

It should. If the image was made off of an NTFS formatted drive, it will image
to the new drive as NTFS. I have done it from a 5 gig disk to 20 gig disk using
Norton Ghost successfully without having to reset any of my permissions. Note
though, I normally use the image to partition option, not image to drive, which
can be problematic if you are looking to have multiple partitions in the future.

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Regards,

Durand


| I have a 20GB drive (with programs) and want to copy it onto a brand new
| 40GB hard drive so I have more drive space. The original is formatted in
| NTFS. If I attempt this, will I end up with a 40GB drive entirely formatted
| in NTFS with all my programs from the 20GB drive in working order?
| Thanks.....
|
| Bobby
|
|

 

[Bobby77501]

Thanks. How can I contact you if I have a problem (I don't have the 40Gb
drives yet).

Bobby

 

[Durand]

I frequent the newsgroups where possible. Just send a post here so all may
benefit.

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Regards,

Durand


| Thanks. How can I contact you if I have a problem (I don't have the 40Gb
| drives yet).
|
| Bobby
|
|
| | > It should. If the image was made off of an NTFS formatted drive, it will
| image
| > to the new drive as NTFS. I have done it from a 5 gig disk to 20 gig disk
| using
| > Norton Ghost successfully without having to reset any of my permissions.
| Note
| > though, I normally use the image to partition option, not image to drive,
| which
| > can be problematic if you are looking to have multiple partitions in the
| future.
| >
| > --
| > Regards,
| >
| > Durand
| >
| >
| > | > | I have a 20GB drive (with programs) and want to copy it onto a brand new
| > | 40GB hard drive so I have more drive space. The original is formatted
| in
| > | NTFS. If I attempt this, will I end up with a 40GB drive entirely
| formatted
| > | in NTFS with all my programs from the 20GB drive in working order?
| > | Thanks.....
| > |
| > | Bobby
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|

 

[Bob Harris]

GHOST 2003 should work.

One caution: Do not use the -IA or -IB options of GHOST.
They are safe, but will turn your new 40 GB disk into a
20GB disk, with 20GB of unformatted space. I made that
mistake once. Not a big deal, since the new disk worked
fine and since i had Partition Magic, which could xpand
the new 20GB partition into the whol of the new disk.

I agree with the previous post, it is usually better to
clone a partition to a new parition rather than to clone a
disk to a new disk. The parition to parition cloning
permits expanding the size on the fly, whihc is probably
what you want.