Ghost - moving to smaller drive (1tb to 300gb)

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I have done this, although not with that big of a drive.  Ghost will recognize the amount of data and work fine.

 

Phil 

Which versions of Ghost can downsize?  I have 9.0 and I think I tried that before and failed.

 

I have a 60GB drive in one partition with 18GB of free space that I would like to break-up to have a small secondary partition.  So far everything I have seen requires the partition to be deleted, the drive repartitioned, and the data restored.  Rebuilding the drive from scratch is about a 30 hour ordeal.

I use 2003, booted directly from dos.  I have never tried this from windows.

 

so in these conditions

 

1. I have a 1000gb bootdrive with 250gb of data on it, its a single partition.

2. I have a 300gb blank new drive.

 

am i correct in assuming that ghost can format my 300gb as a bootdisk and then properly move all the 1000gbs data over to it, so that the 300gb drive will function as a single-partitioned bootdrive?

 

my confusion lies in the fact that i dont know if when moving data from one drive to another, the original drive has to have its partition smaller than the second drive. or if that doesnt matter at all....

 

 

Yes, ghost can do this.  The original data is left intact, so you should have no problems.  If you run into an error you can redo it.  Here is another thought if you have Partition Magic:  You can shrink the 1000 partition to say 280G.  Then the receiving drive will be bigger than the source drive.  When everything is done, resize the original drive.  Since ghost is only interested in the data on the drive, everything should fit.

I don’t think we know what version of Windows is in user here – need to be careful with VISTA in making changes with Partition Magic since it has not been cleared for VISTA which has made some subtle changes to NTFS or to the disk structure I understand

Here is another thought (hey sometimes these things happen) if you still have problems.

Create a second partition on the big drive.

Create an IMAGE to this newly created partition (the image will be smaller than the original, in most cases.

restore the IMAGE to the new drive (the new drive will be larger than the image).

 

 

 

Never used Vista, and from the previous posts, I assumed XP.

Hey, I don't even like some of the new OSs, but I won't mention any names :)

 

Good point.  I hadn't heard there may ba a difference.

 

I'm no expert in that field but I'm told by those who know these things that VISTA did change something in the file/disk structure and that things like Partition Magic which did deep could be upset -- not to use it to change a VISTA created partition.

 

When I set up my VISTA dual boot on my XP machine I used PM8 to create a partition on a second hard drive and then installed VISTA and that has been OK but I've avoided any attempt to change the VISTA partition.

I take it then that Vista has no way to alter its partition sizes by itself?

 


Phil wrote:

I take it then that Vista has no way to alter its partition sizes by itself?

 


 

I've not used it but VISTA does apparently include the ability to shrink a partition and then to create a new partition in the free space but I gather that it does not provide for other alterations in size etc.