[CTS] Re: hard disk size issue after ghost image is put on
- From: "Vernon Balbert" <vbalbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:07:00 -0700
I was on the technical support team for Ghost when I worked at Symantec.
Trust me, it's great for moving from a small drive to a larger one. I did
it all the time. However, we're dealing with a problem that's specific to
FAT32. FAT32 volumes are theoretically possible into the terabyte range,
but it's not practical. I think in this situation we simply have a
practical limitation, hence my suggestions.
Vern
----- Original Message -----
From: <Cuffy10@xxxxxxx>
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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