On 8/26/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone ever done this to copy the contents of the old drive to a new > (larger) drive? I have been working on doing so for hours: a couple of > times it has reported that it copied successfully, but the computer would > not boot with the new drive as drive 0. Can anyone tell me the "trick" to > getting it to work: I have tried a number of different combinations of > settings and none has resulted in a new drive which will boot up.
Isn't Ghost a disk imaging program? IIRC, it's intended to do drive backups by creating a sector-by-sector copy of the disk (as opposed to a file-by-file copy), which can then later be restored to those same sectors if data was corrupted. In that way, things like special boot sectors are preserved and restored. If the target disk isn't identical (ie: it doesn't have the same sector format (and cylinder/head count)) , all that boot stuff may not end up in the right places for the new bigger disk to be bootable. Aside from bootability, are the disk files readable at least? You might be better off using a standard disk backup program (of the file copy sort) - I think some of those are able to make the target disk bootable even if it doesn't match. I don't use Ghost, so I'm not an expert. Perhaps there's some options available to make it work the way you desire. Hopefully Doug's friends can help you there. -bryon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
