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Title: Ghosting Drive
Post by: simpleone on October 15, 2002, 06:58:16 AM

Hi All,

Can someone answer this for me,

I presently run e-smith 5.5 on a 20g drive, i want to upgrade this to a 80g drive. Can i use a program like ghost and image from one drive to the other and increase the size ?

Simon

Title: Re: Ghosting Drive
Post by: James Douglas on October 15, 2002, 07:12:21 AM

Ive successfully used ghost 2002 to image the drive to a file and restore to other drives but havent played with the resizing. In my case all were identical

Title: Partition Magic / Partition Manager (was Re: Ghosting Drive)
Post by: guck puppy on October 15, 2002, 10:59:12 AM

Either of these will do the "ghost" dealie.

You can copy the entire hard-disk, then increase partition size as you see fit.

Partition Magic : http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/ ($69.95)

Partition Manager : http://www.partition-manager.com/ ($39.95)

Title: Re: Partition Magic / Partition Manager (was Re: Ghosting Dr
Post by: guck puppy on October 15, 2002, 11:13:30 AM

actually, maybe it's PARAGON Hard Disk Manager rather than Partition Manager...

Title: Re: Ghosting Drive
Post by: Ron on October 15, 2002, 05:09:06 PM

I'm playing with Ghost2002 and several Harddisk.
I moved form 4 GB to 10 GB and to 20 GB and return to 4GB.
I resized only the last partion and all works fine.
There were no problems.
Now it is running on 40 GB without any problems.
Also Diskkopy is working fine.

Ron

Title: Re: Ghosting Drive
Post by: sam russo on October 15, 2002, 05:14:51 PM

I've done similar but found that using Ghost only works when I create a .gho file somewhere.
ie When I did a HD->HD copy (and the destination HD was larger or the same) it didn't work for me. But when I made a .gho image of a HD somewhere then did a dump from image it worked fine!

Title: Re: Ghosting Drive
Post by: Michael Smith on October 16, 2002, 03:04:08 AM

I just did this, going from 30GB to 100GB using a Norton Ghost 2002 boot floppy and other than adjusting the suggested /boot & swap partitions to the same size as they were on the 30GB drive, the process was completely painless.  I told it to do a "disk to disk" (not image or partition) and Ghost took care of *everything*.

Title: Re: Ghosting Drive
Post by: simpleone on October 16, 2002, 07:13:00 AM

Out of the partitions on the drive does ghost automaticly resize the right one or do i have to tell it to and if so which partition needs to be resized

Title: Re: Ghosting Drive
Post by: Michael Smith on October 17, 2002, 12:24:48 AM

Ghost will offer to resize all three partitions created by SME ... /boot, / & swap.  I manually adjusted /boot & swap to the values from the old drive, then adjusted / to fill the rest of the space, then let Ghost execute the transfer.  Voila.

Title: Re: Ghosting Drive
Post by: Kenneth Wellin on October 19, 2002, 12:01:20 AM

Has somebody tried this on a system with disks setup for software mirroring?

Regards,

Kenneth