Norton Ghost Question

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Randy Meisner

I created an image of my bootable drive (30 GB) onto multiple CD/R. I
then replaced this 30 GB drive with a 160 GB drive.

My question/problem is that the new partition is great, all settings
are still there, etc., but when I try to copy data I ran out of space!

I found out that the Ghost had created a 30 GB partion and left the
other 130 GB unformatted and not attached to any partition.

Is there a way that I can get Ghost to restore the image but
format/create the partition for the etire 160 GB (note that 160 GB is
not REAL GB but rather billions of formatted bytes. The true size of
the disk is 136 GB).

I am using Windows 2000 Pro, service patch 4 on an AMD 800 with 512 MB
memory and (hopefully soon) 2-160 GB* drives.

I would really prefer to not have to purchase Partition Magic or one
of those guys if possible.
 
I created an image of my bootable drive (30 GB) onto multiple CD/R. I
then replaced this 30 GB drive with a 160 GB drive.

My question/problem is that the new partition is great, all settings
are still there, etc., but when I try to copy data I ran out of space!

I found out that the Ghost had created a 30 GB partion and left the
other 130 GB unformatted and not attached to any partition.

Is there a way that I can get Ghost to restore the image but
format/create the partition for the etire 160 GB (note that 160 GB is
not REAL GB but rather billions of formatted bytes. The true size of
the disk is 136 GB).

I am using Windows 2000 Pro, service patch 4 on an AMD 800 with 512 MB
memory and (hopefully soon) 2-160 GB* drives.

I would really prefer to not have to purchase Partition Magic or one
of those guys if possible.
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Use the GDisk.exe utility which comes with Ghost to create and format
a partition to fill the drive. As an alternative, you can download
and use BootIt Next Generation from www.terabyteunlimited.com to do
the same thing non - destructively. It's shareware ($35.95) but is
fully functional for 30 days.
 
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