image a small drive into a large one... 2

[XPPROGRAMMER]

Hello,

can you image a 10 gigabyte harddrive into a new 200
gigabyte harddrive by using norton ghost? or, do you
suggest another imaging program that is more accurate
and reliable than norton ghost?
I would like to have a 100% duplicate and exact
replica of the old drive into the new one.

thanks for your help.

 

[franklin97355]

As long as the old and new drives are in good working order you should not have any problems. One of the problems I've had is when the new drive has bad sectors because the image is laid down on top of the bad sectors and then will not run. You might try creating a 20G partition on the new drive and imaging to that if you plan to create multiple partitions on the drive later.

 

[tf1]

There's no problem: the only critical requirement is that the destination drive must always be at least as big as the source drive!

I prefer Acronis TrueImage. I use it for backing up my system to an external USB drive monthly with incremental saves at least weekly. But you can use virtually any CDR or DVDR, Firewire or USB device.

It is just so easy to use: it makes a boot disk which can be on CD, floppy or any other removable (bootable) media. It is sufficiently intelligent to work out whether it needs USB or firewire support for external storage devices as well as any USB driver needed for the keyboard or mouse and adds these to the boot disk. It can even use a floppy drive!

You boot to this media and then a dead simple graphical interface for either creating or restoring an image (either whole, partial or incremental) or creating a new drive is presented.

Regards: tf1

 

[DaveFortune]

Is it possible to use Acronis TrueImage on a Windows 2000 server? As Ive found some software doesn't work on servers.