Norton/Symantec Ghost Question

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Bobby77501

I have a 20GB drive (with programs) and want to copy it onto a brand new
40GB hard drive so I have more drive space. The original is formatted in
NTFS. If I attempt this, will I end up with a 40GB drive entirely formatted
in NTFS with all my programs from the 20GB drive in working order?
Thanks.....

Bobby
 
It should. If the image was made off of an NTFS formatted drive, it will image
to the new drive as NTFS. I have done it from a 5 gig disk to 20 gig disk using
Norton Ghost successfully without having to reset any of my permissions. Note
though, I normally use the image to partition option, not image to drive, which
can be problematic if you are looking to have multiple partitions in the future.

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Regards,

Durand


| I have a 20GB drive (with programs) and want to copy it onto a brand new
| 40GB hard drive so I have more drive space. The original is formatted in
| NTFS. If I attempt this, will I end up with a 40GB drive entirely formatted
| in NTFS with all my programs from the 20GB drive in working order?
| Thanks.....
|
| Bobby
|
|
 
Thanks. How can I contact you if I have a problem (I don't have the 40Gb
drives yet).

Bobby
 
I frequent the newsgroups where possible. Just send a post here so all may
benefit.

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Regards,

Durand


| Thanks. How can I contact you if I have a problem (I don't have the 40Gb
| drives yet).
|
| Bobby
|
|
| | > It should. If the image was made off of an NTFS formatted drive, it will
| image
| > to the new drive as NTFS. I have done it from a 5 gig disk to 20 gig disk
| using
| > Norton Ghost successfully without having to reset any of my permissions.
| Note
| > though, I normally use the image to partition option, not image to drive,
| which
| > can be problematic if you are looking to have multiple partitions in the
| future.
| >
| > --
| > Regards,
| >
| > Durand
| >
| >
| > | > | I have a 20GB drive (with programs) and want to copy it onto a brand new
| > | 40GB hard drive so I have more drive space. The original is formatted
| in
| > | NTFS. If I attempt this, will I end up with a 40GB drive entirely
| formatted
| > | in NTFS with all my programs from the 20GB drive in working order?
| > | Thanks.....
| > |
| > | Bobby
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|
 
GHOST 2003 should work.

One caution: Do not use the -IA or -IB options of GHOST.
They are safe, but will turn your new 40 GB disk into a
20GB disk, with 20GB of unformatted space. I made that
mistake once. Not a big deal, since the new disk worked
fine and since i had Partition Magic, which could xpand
the new 20GB partition into the whol of the new disk.

I agree with the previous post, it is usually better to
clone a partition to a new parition rather than to clone a
disk to a new disk. The parition to parition cloning
permits expanding the size on the fly, whihc is probably
what you want.
 
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