Hello, What is the best way to copy oner an existing drive (2 partit

[samaher]

Hello, <br>
What is the best way to copy oner an existing drive (2 partitions 6 Gig) to a 17 Gig HD. I would like to also keep,it in 2 partitions due to the cd rom set up on th computer.<br>
Thanks<br>
Steve

 

[woofnet]

You might try GHOST (

http://WWW.GHOSTSOFT.COM)

is you have a network drive to use temporarily.<br>
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You GHOST up the existing drive which compresses it and puts into one GHOST file.<br>
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When you ghost back down it will create the partitions and allocate appropriate space.<br>
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-dw

 

[samaher]

OK, here is what I ended up doing. I had two partitions on a 8.2 GIG. Both were 4.1G each. Both were set up as NTFS.<br>
I installed the secondary drive (the new 16.4 GIG)and configed it in the bios only. Then I booted the system on the newly created DRIVE COPY ver. 2.0 Boot disk. The graphical interface recognized everything, and dumped it all in two partitions as hoped, and then allowed me to resize them to my selections, keeping in mind the the first partition has to be less than 8.2G or so, it is in the book. After the copy, about 39 minutes, 179Meg/sec, i pulled the original primary, set up the new 17G as the primary, and it loaded NT4.0, all applications and data in tact. To me it was pretty slick.<br>
I did not get to try ghost, but this seemed pretty straight forward.<br>
Steve<br>

 

[PK]

Another good tool is Powerquest's Drive Image Pro which is similar to Ghost. I have had very good luck with it and it is easy to use. <br>
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Another thing you could have done is put the new drive in your machine as the Primary Disk. Run NT install and install the OS in a different named directory (ex. c:\ALTNT). Then once you have booted into the new OS you can use WINFILE to copy the files over to the new disk. Once you reboot it will come back up for you with the old files and you can just delete the directory \WINALT.