Norton Ghost Clone discrepancy

Hi, I have a Maxtor 80 Gig hard drive with Windows 98SE installed from Dell along with all my user files. I recently started experiencing some clicking sounds from the drive and so went and bought a new Western Digital 160GB drive. I used Symantec Ghost to clone the FAT32 partition of the 80 Gig drive to a 85 GB partition on the new 160 GB drive. Afterwards, I used Norton Disk Doctor (that came with Norton SystemWorks 2002) to verify all files and bytes matched. I ran NDD on the 80 Gig drive and then ran NDD on the 85 GB partition. Much to my surprise, I noticed that 1 file was missing from the user files area and I was missing 524288 bytes (512 kb) in directories on the cloned partition. Before I let this go, I am trying to understand the reason for the discrepancy. Is the reason because I'm trying to compare disk/drive information with partition information? I'm sure it's something simple. Can anyone please assist? Thanks in advance.

 

Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that I fixed my own problem. This is what was going on and what I did. I had my Maxtor 80 Gig drive with Win 98SE (installed by Dell) and I wanted to transfer EVERYTHING over to a new WD 160 Gig drive. At first, I did only a partition to partition copy, however, that did not pick up the swap file and it did not pick up one user file and 512K bytes in directories. There was no explanation for this. Then I did a disk to disk clone and that got everything except for one user file (albeit the bytes were the same between the two). Finally, I did a disk to disk clone with the -id (Image Disk) switch set and that copied over EVERYTHING. I had no missing bytes, no missing files, no missing directories, no missing anything. It was an exact copy of the original 80 Gig drive. The only problem now is that it copied over and created a 74.5 Gig partition on the 160 GB drive. Therefore, I will need some advice on how to use that remaining space on the 160 GB without losing my new data on it. Also, during the disk to disk copy, I noticed second partition on my drive that was not available for viewing using FDISK or in the partition to partition copy section of Ghost. Strange! Anyways, it appears that Dell with it's tricky zztop and hidden image partition, that the only way to get EVERYTHING off your drive is using the disk to disk clone with the Image Disk option set. Maybe this info can help someone else down the road who has this problem.

 

I used Partition Magic to do something that happend similar to me. But I wanted a partition. But you can create the partition, then merge it if you want.