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Ghosting hard drive to hard drive
04-05-2012 5:54 PM
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I use the setup process to pick on the 60GB drive as the source, and the 160GB drive as destination. The copy gets part way (at least 7%) then complains about not having enough contiguous space.
I am having to guess how to run Ghost, so I could be doing something wrong. The CD has supposed to have been used successfully at work, but it wasn't me using it there so I have no idea what my colleague did.
Any suggestions, or recommendations for some other way of ghosting, please?
TIA
Re: Ghosting hard drive to hard drive
04-05-2012 6:03 PM
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Then copy the data to the new drive data partition and once you are happy that it is correct with no problems delete the data from the existing drive and then mirror the remainder to the program and operating system partition
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04-05-2012 6:03 PM
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Re: Ghosting hard drive to hard drive
04-05-2012 6:27 PM
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Reply to HPsauce - its a version of XP - called Media I think, but could be wrong on the Media bit
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04-05-2012 6:29 PM
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Clone the disc using Clonezilla and then expand the partition on the new drive to use all the available space.
You can do both from live CDs http://clonezilla.org/ & http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
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Re: Ghosting hard drive to hard drive
04-05-2012 6:55 PM
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Quote from: penneck Reply to HPsauce - its a version of XP - called Media I think, but could be wrong on the Media bit
There was a Media Center Edition of XP.
But what make is it? And do you have the install disks?
It might be better to do a clean install on the new disk and transfer data across as required.
Re: Ghosting hard drive to hard drive
04-05-2012 8:01 PM
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I then refitted the new drive and used Partition Magic 8 to check it. It lists the follwing:-
Partition Type Size Used Not Used Status Pri/Log
RECOVERY FAT 4.86G 2 .57G 2.28G None Primary
?????????? NTFS 57G 57G 0G Active Primary
*: Extended 90.1G 90.1G 0G None Primary
*: Unformatted 90.1G 0G 90.1G None Logical
The Make and Model of the laptop is Advent 7105, and I dont think we have the recovery disks, but I will search the house for them
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04-05-2012 9:03 PM
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Quote from: penneck The Make and Model of the laptop is Advent 7105, and I dont think we have the recovery disks, but I will search the house for them
Read this then: http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/laptop/7105.htm
CAREFULLY, especially the bit about using partition tools!
FAQ
How to Manually Run the Recovery Media Creator
If you've deleted the shortcut to Recovery Media Creator then don't panic. To run it manually open My Computer and browse to the C:\Windows\Creator folder and double click on CD Creator.
Re: Ghosting hard drive to hard drive
05-05-2012 8:18 AM
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I guess that when trying to clone the old drive to a larger drive. the proportions of the old partitions were transferred to the new (the two partitions are the second is about 50% greater than the first on both hard drives).
I am going to try to attach a comparison table of the two hard drives. The data is based on having one or other hard drive fitted in the laptop then booting up from Partition Magic 8
Second - I have found the recovery disk. Haven't tried it yet, but thanks for pointing me to where to get guidance to create a new recovery disk.
Third - you were correct. The laptop does have XP Media Centre
Now for the attachment (this is where I could use a smiley face)
Thanks
Re: Ghosting hard drive to hard drive
05-05-2012 10:49 AM
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This is to support the various recovery/diagnostic options, booting into the "strange" partitions, running extended diagnostics etc.
That's why it's best to rebuild rather than clone.
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07-05-2012 12:26 PM
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07-05-2012 12:57 PM
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09-05-2012 10:13 PM
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A colleague has loaned me a copy of Symantec Ghost 11.5. I ran the disk-to-disk copy as before, but without adjusting the size of the two partitions it tried to generate (the same sizes as Symantec Ghost 11.1 tried to create) and it worked first time. There was a hiccup at the end when during the bit where it creates the the bootup (or whatever that part of the process is called). It complained about a block, but gave me the option to ignore all subsequent faults, so I said Yes. It completed the process, and when I tried to boot from the new disk, it came up perfectly.
Thanks to all who tried to help
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