I have a laptop for which I have 2 physical HDDs with different OS's on. Primary HDD is Win 7 and my 2nd disk is Win Vista Premium.
One of these HDD (Vista with dell recovery partition + 2 other partitions) is making noises suggesting that it's about to fail and has started throwing up bad sector. Consequently I want to clone it to a new HDD. As I have only 1 external disk caddy and the Vista OS will not load up any longer my plan is to clone that disk (telling Ghost to ignore bad sectors), and then use the Dell recovery partition to re-install Vista Premium. Normally I'd reload the OS from scratch but the laptop didn't come with a physical Vista DVD and Dell want £30 to send me one.
In the good old (simple) days of Ghost I used to plug in my 2nd HDD (Vista) via a USB caddy, create a single disk image onto my laptop which included all partitions. I could then plug in my new HDD, tell ghost to extract that image file onto the new disk and voila! I had an exact replica of the old disk including all partitions etc.
After 24 hours of fighting with Ghost 15 it doesn't appear to have such an easy way of doing things. I've read and re-read chapter 6 of the manual and I'm now at the end of my patience. I seem to have ended up with 4 different .v2i files (one for each partition) and a .sv21 file. Whatever I do I cannot get all 4 partitions to transfer to my new HDD.
What is the correct workflow for doing this?
Thanks, Dave