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[Wakenaam]

I want to clone the data from my 2 GB hard drive on to a 10 GB hard drive using Norton's Ghost Image. My problem is the data on my 2 GB hard drive is 1.4 Mb so the Image file will not fit on this drive. Is it possible to partition my 10 GB drive in, say, 2 partitions of 2 GB and 6 GB each and store the Image on the 2 GB partition as a slave? Then I can physically remove this drive to the C:\ drive position on the ribbon and re-create the data to the 6 MB partition from the 2 GB partition? I don't want to risk overwriting the data on my old drive. I tried drive-to-drive cloning but no success. Thanks for any help. Norton's Ghost 2003 and Windows 98SE.

[doctorgonzo]

When you say you tried drive to drive cloning and had no success, what happened? That is by far the easiest thing to do, so you should concentrate on getting that to work first.

[Wakenaam]

Doctorgonzo: Thanks for your response. I keep getting the message:"Disk I/O error. Repace the disk and then press any key" when I try to boot off the cloned disk in the C:\ position on the IDE ribbon.

[doctorgonzo]

Did you clone the full disk, or just the partition? If you just cloned the partition, you are missing the MBR that the disk needs to boot. Try cloning the entire disk instead of just the partition so you don't miss the boot sector.

[glc]

How old is this computer? Do you have a brand and model - or if it's a custom build, do you have the motherboard brand/model? It's very possible the bios is having a problem with drives over 8gb and the geometry is being reported wrong. Also - have you verified correct jumpering? Western Digital drives will NOT work properly if you have them jumpered to Master when there is not a slave present.

[Wakenaam]

Dear GLC: My computer is a 166 Mz (old, but working). I am trying to create an image of my entire C:\ drive on to a 2 GB partition on my secondary HDD (E:\ drive). The C:\ drive is a 2 GB but already has 1.4 GB of data, so if I create an image on the same drive I'm afraid the image would erase some of my data. So I created a 2 GB partition on a secondary drive to copy my image to this partition, then I would re-create my C:\ drive on to the 6 GB partition on my secondary drive (this drive is 8 GB total) from the 2GB partition. Ghost allows me to clone from the C:\ drive to the 2 GB partition, but I cannnot create an image to the 2 GB partition. Any ideas how I can do this? (Windows 98SE, Ghost 2003)

[glc]

If you just want to clone drive to drive, use the free tools available from the hard drive manufacturer. What brands are the 2 drives?