Can Ghost copy this partition?

I have harddrive 0 partitioned into 2 basic drives-drive C (which I boot from) and drive D (which I use for data). I have a second harddrive 1 which is a single partition (drive E). I use Win 2k pro. I want to clone the C partition to the second drive (this will be my backup to restore my OS if it crashes). When I try using Ghost 2002, it does not see the 2 partitions on harddrive 0 and wants to clone the entire drive onto the second harddrive (but it won't fit because drive 0 is 60gig and drive 1 is 13 gig, but the first partition on drive 0 is also 13 gig so that it would fit onto drive 1). Does anyone know if this can be done somehow?? Thanks

 

oscar$

When you start ghostpe, do you select partition>image?

If you do you should see both your HD's on the next screen. Select the first one and next screen should show the two partitions of that drive. Select the partitin you want to clone and the next screen wants you to say where you want to put it.

Right so far?

 

Ghost needs space much larger than the partition you wish to clone.

Hence a 13 GB partition will not be able to be cloned to one the same size.

I do not think you can clone partly to your second partition and the remainder to the second drive.

 

Bmoore, I will try your suggestion as soon as I get back to the computer in question (might be a day or two) .
Mahmud, I'm not sure I understood your comments. I have cloned from drive to drive where the drives are different sizes without a problem. In this case, I want to clone from a partition (of size 13 gig) on one drive (the drive is total 60 gig) to another harddrive that is 13 gig total in size. The partition size on the first drive was chosen to be 13 gig because that is the size of the second drive that I want to use as a backup. Hope that explains it better!

 

Let me clarify. If the partition you wish to clone has 13 GB of data, then your destination disk needs to be much larger as Ghost needs space for Temp files whilst it carries out the task.

In your case, if you select Disk to Disk then that is exactly what Ghost will do. That is, it will try to clone both partitions of your C: drive to the D: drive which it will fail at as the data on the 2 partitions probably exceed the size of your destination drive D:.

You should try Local>Partition to Disk selecting the first partition on C: as the source to your second drive D: as the destination.

 

Mahmud, I think I understand what you're saying. But for anyone following this discussion, I believe Mahmud's reference to drive D: in the previous post really should be drive E: (C: and D: are on the same physical drive, and it is C: that I want to backup onto my second physical drive which is E.

Now maybe someone can educate me a little here. Mahmud said that Ghost needs extra space for temp files so the destination needs to be larger than the source. I was under the impression that disk to disk simply copied sector by sector, and there were no temporary intermediate steps involved. Or is this requirement invoked when creating an image file (with the ".gho" extension)?

Bmoore, I ran the sequence this afternoon as you described, and made my backup. Originally, I had intended to do a clone, but this requires removing the backup drive from the computer, otherwise it thinks there are two C: drives vying for supremacy, since they are identical and both have the OS on them. But I decided to just leave the drive installed and opted for the image file instead.

 

Hey oscar$,

I think you have the bull by the horns now.

The following is what I would do, were I you.

Fdisk physical drive 1 into all extended and three logical partitions.

Make the e: drive 1ghz. Name it Swap or Pagefile.

Make the f: drive 3ghz and name it My Stuff.

Make g: drive the remainder of the room (9ghz) and name it Ghost Images.

Move your swap file to e: (fastest part of your 2nd HD)

Move your Favorites, Address Book, Email Store, downloaded files including utilities, drivers, patches, etc. to f:.

Make all your ghost images on g: drive.

Now if you need to restore your c: drive, just pop in the ghost disk and restore from your g: drive. It takes me about 53 seconds to restore to the exact c: image I have stored. Which, BTW, I stored with no temps, no Temp internet files, no virii or spyware and all nicely defragged.

Ghost is the best thing in computers since DOS.

 

Thanks Bill for the suggestion. I'll give that some thought. Moving the swap file to the 2nd drive seems like a good idea! For the time being, I'm going to try to find out why my settings keep changing (some gremlin is at work- now the printer prints last page first, mysterious black bars appear on either side of the browser after awhile). Running Win 2k pro with only 64 meg RAM, so I suspect that could be causing problems. Thanks again for the kind assistance.

 

64 Megs of RAM is rather puny for Windows above win 3.1. It doesn't cost that much. You should got to a minimum of 256 Megs and 512 wouldn't hurt.

I took out a comment about searching for black bars. Didn't return anything useful.

The printer is and option for "ordered printing ". I do have some probs at times of options changing, especially if I have booted into Safe Mode (changes location of my desktop icons and unchecks the hide taskbar option).