[CTS] Re: hard disk size issue after ghost image is put on
- From: Cuffy10@xxxxxxx
- To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:58:48 EDT
In a message dated 4/27/04 5:34:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
beddy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Ayep!!! If nothing else ghost has the clone feature also...
You might want to take a look at this........
http://ghost.radified.com/norton_ghost_1.htm
Cloning & Batch Files
Let me preface this section by saying that I have never cloned anything. I've
only created & restored images. If I was going to clone either a disk or
partition, I'd first want to talk to someone who has some real-life experience.
When you use Ghost for cloning you are essentially doing what XXCopy does.
There IS NO IMAGE involved when you clone.
Cloning is like copying. No image file is created during the cloning process.
During cloning, Ghost copies files from the source partition (or disk) to the
destination (target). The thing that makes Ghost's cloning features so
powerful is that ALL the files are copied.
Many people ask why they can't simply use Windows to copy files from one
drive to another. Try it, you'll discover why: Windows file-copy won't copy the
FAT (File Allocation Table), partition table, or boot files .. all of which you
need.
You may hear about a utility called Xcopy. I've never used it, but have heard
it mentioned & debated many times. Some insist that it works fine; others
claim it's flawed. Here's a link called Xcopy Xposed that says it's flawed, and
gives reasons why.
Another utility called xxcopy (no, not porn) supposedly works like xcopy, but
without its (alleged) problems. I've never used it. You might also find
helpful these links to disk utilities from several major hard drive
manufacturers,
including Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital. These utilities do essentially
the same thing that Ghost's cloning feature does.
Ghost's cloning feature is typically used to copy the contents of one
disk/partition (usually older/smaller) to another (usually newer/larger). Users
have
reported success with this method. Some caution that, if a boot drive is
invloved, you must set a partition on the new drive as the ACTIVE partition.
You
can do this with FDISK.
I was under the impression that the destination drive must be at least as big
as the source, but Dharma Singh writes to say this is not true. He says that
you can clone a larger drive (36GB, for example) to a smaller one (18GB, for
example) as long as the *contents* (data) of the source drive do not exceed the
capacity of the destination (target). He says he has actually done this.
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