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Ghosting HDs

  • 25-05-2007 10:43am
    #1
    riddik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭


    Is it possible to load a ghost of a smaller HD onto a newer bigger one? I.e a 20gb ghost file onto a 25gb HD? I imagine if you partition it to the same size as the ghost file, surely it will work?


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  • #2
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Yes you can do that.
    I use DriveXML with a Bart PE boot disk to do this. There is an option when creating the image to just copy the used sectors. If you defrag the drive before hand then this can really reduce the size of the image - of course this depends on how much free space you have on the drive! Partition sizes don't matter!

    Edit:
    I should add that this tool will allow you to copy individual partitions and not the whole disk.


  • #3
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    Yes, it will work, though there's a few points to watch...

    If it's a ghost of the hard drive, (not a partition), it will overwrite the existing partition table, so existing data would usually be inaccessible.

    If the type of drive, and the controller it's connected to is different (PATA to SATA/SCSI) windows will have issues booting, unless you load the drivers in advance of the image.

    There's also an option called disk signature in a handful of XP and in Vista setups that's caused issues in the past for me. Didn't investigate much before, just removed it in XP. This might cause issues in Vista.


  • #4
    riddik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭riddik


    thanx lads, i dont think those issues will apply, il tell u exactly what im doing...

    my xbox[original] hard drive gave up, it had all my saves etc on it, but i ghosted it recently enough so i have some backup at least. thing is i get free HDs at work so im just gonna use one of them, the one i get are 300GB and upwards, much bigger than the xbox's drive so was just checkin this was possible.

    thanx a lot, im sure il be back if i have problems, thanx for the software recommendation!


  • #5
    stevejazzx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    used norton ghost yesterday to do this and all seemed to work except vista loaded up but wouldn't go into the desktop
    i don't know what went although the information ghosted was from an ide and the drive was a sata drive?
    Vista said i didn't have access...?


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