Million dollar question system/drive

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JimL said:
It handles 320GB fine via USB.


I'm on SP3 and updated within days.


I would not start a 9 step process until I know if Ghost would handle
the drive as a single entity (thus wiping out everything as it goes)
or would limit the save to a partition of it.

Just looking at the process isn't encouraging. The target is listed
as j:\. the last and busiest partition on the big drive and I can't
find a way to change it. I have space right at the front of the
drive to use for an image.

I read the idea elsewhere, possibly somewhere in Ghost material
itself. But my searches have come up emoty so far. The wording
seemed to fit with the standard notice you get when formatting a
drive - all data will be lost or words to that effect. (I realize
that IS referring only to the partition being formatted.)

I just wish these big companies weren't so determined not to talk to
users.
Thanks
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A word of caution if you do go ahead: be careful to boot to the new drive
with the old one completely disconnected *first time*. Even if the computer
should "know" which is bootable, if the old one's attached for the first
boot it can cause all sorts of problems down the line - not always
immediately making themselves known. I've been there.
 
Olórin said:
A word of caution if you do go ahead: be careful to boot to the new drive
with the old one completely disconnected *first time*. Even if the
computer should "know" which is bootable, if the old one's attached for
the first boot it can cause all sorts of problems down the line - not
always immediately making themselves known. I've been there.
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I'll definitely keep that in mind! I've had some _really_ strange things
going on since Comcast's Desktop Doctor got hold of my current system.
Right now at apparently random times something is dialing up my dial-up,
which I still need for a little while - during all kinds of operations:
browser, news reader, email, no operation at all ...

Comcast seems to have turned on every possible service relating to
networking, ethernet, wireless, dial-up, etc. A thing called WAN miniport
(ethernet) gave me fits for a couple days.

Thanks
 
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