Unallocated space

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Derek

I needed to replace a 30 GB hard disk drive, and did so today, cloning the
data and programmes with Norton Ghost 10 by installing the new drive on the
computer as a second drive, and afterwards removing the old drive. Much to
my surprise, it worked - I have never dared try anything like this before.
The new drive has 80 GB, but in cloning the old drive I find I have cloned
the old partition limits as well. I have checked this with FDISK and it
confirms a partition of only 30 GB used. So there is another 50 GB unused
(possibly even unformatted?) out there, though with Norton Ghost you don't
need to format the new drive at all when transferring data. I imagine that
if I simply delete the primary partition and then try to reinstall it, I
will lose all the data in the 30 GB part. Is there any way of extending the
primary partition to include all the unused space without buying a utility
like Partition Magic?

Derek
 
I'm don't know what version of Ghost your using, but since you have an image
that works then I would start over again by partitioning the drive to use
all of the space, then use Ghost to install the image. Ghost should give you
the option to use the existing partition (your new drive's entire space,
which you do want) or to create a partition that matched the old drive size
(which you do not want to do).

JS
 
Hook up old hd C: as master with new hd as slave on same IDE cable,
you'll boot up to old C: In xp,go to run,type:diskmgmt.msc In msc,format
the new drive,when thru exit msc.Go to run,type:XCOPY C: \*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
Agree to all in the DOS window,when its thru,C: is now on the new hd with
all youre space,also D: being the new hd,if asigned diffrent letter,then use
that letter instead.
 
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