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Using Ghost to upgrade HD

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  1. 2004/12/19
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    I neeed to upgrade a HD on one of our company workstations. While I could always start from scratch the amount of data and time would be a real hassle...too many developement applications to reload :(

    System is W2k SP4
    One HD, NTFS, (3) Volumes
    c:\ 4GB
    d:\ 4GB
    f:\ 2GB

    Can I ghost (C:\) to a new 120GB HD and set the primary partition to 20GB at the same time..so that,

    c:\ 20GB
    d:\ 40GB
    f:\ 40GB

    Once C:\ has been ghosted/un-ghosted, I was hoping to make the new drive the primary-master and make the old HD the primary-slave, then just copy D & F over to the new HD partitions.

    Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
     
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    Hi 24jedi!

    The partition sizes on the current HDD are confusing. Is it really a 10 GB HDD?

    Anyway, Ghost 2003 can do a Disk to Disk clone. That procedure will clone all data from one to the other.

    Ghost will maintain the ratio of the partition sizes but gives You the option to resize any partition which is probably what You want if You go from a 10 GB HDD to a 120 GB HDD. Make sure that You choose the correct sizes for the partitions. The added sizes can not be higher than the total HDD size and if lower, You will end up with unallocated space.

    Connect the new HDD as Primary Slave for the cloning operation but it is very important to NOT LET GHOST RESET THE COMPUTER when finished. That would mix up the volume identifiers for Windows. Two HDDs with the same identifiers would be on the system and Windows would change them on the cloned HDD, from which Windows currently doesn't boot, rendering it non-bootable.

    So, when Ghost prompts for a reboot, shut the computer off on the power switch, remove the old HDD and connect the new HDD as Primary Master. Restart the computer and check that everything is OK.

    DON'T DO THE BELOW UNTIL YOU ARE 100% SURE THAT THE NEW HDD IS OK!

    Now, You can connect the old HDD as Primary Slave. The volume identifier thing doesn't matter since You are going to remove the existing partitions and create new ones.

    Christer
     
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    Christer,
    You are right. I had a brain-fart. The total HD space is only 8GB. The point I was trying to make was having multiple volumes on a single HD.

    Thanks for your feedback.
     
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    24jedi,
    You're welcome ...... :) ...... !

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