Ghost

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When ghost is used to clone from one drive to a larger drive, does it copy the partition table verbatim, or does it extends or add a left-over partition (to avoid lost space)?

 

I actually need a way to clone a drive verbatim because the partition table is corrupt and I prefer no further changes to the partition table when I attempt to reconstruct it. In other words, after cloning the drive, I want the larger drive to appear to have the same size as the original drive (assuming the larger drive has more heads and cylinders).

 

Ghost will only change the size of a partition when the option to resize to use all available space is chosen by the user.  On a resize it will fix up the partition information to match the newly resized partition.  Otherwise, it will only create, if needed, a partition entry that matches the partition being laid down.  Ghost will lay an image down based on the geometry information it obtains when it goes to restore the partition. It does whatever fix ups are needed to match that geometry so that you don't have to worry about what the geometry was or what it is when doing the restore.

 

If you are going to a new blank drive, Ghost will create a partition table that is good. So, in this case you won't need to worry about partition table corruption and either option should be fine. 

Can I install on my present pc, and then when I purchase a new one in a few months, reinstall on the new one??

Yes, you can backup to an external or a second internal hard drive. It is much preferred to backup to a HDD rather than optical media.

racerokc,

Just to add that, if you plan to reproduce all 11 partitions Ghost 12 will, as you progress with the "clone" automatically count down the remaining unallocated space.

You will then be left with quite a lump of unallocated space on the new drive that can be used to expand the partitions.

It all depends on how you want to manage the drive as far as size of partitions are concerned.

 

All my data is kept on a separate drive to my primary drive that has the 4 O/Ss installed, Ghost 12 recovers those drives in order every time without any failures when I do a re-image.

 

The instructions I posted are for one partition, the settings change slightly for multiple partitions, those extra details can be posted if you request it.

 

Deric

I am using Ghost 12 and am in need of more drive space. I want to install a 1 tb hard drive and use Ghost to install all my files on the new drive.

My question is I have 11 partions on my old drive and need to know do I need to partition the new drive to 11 also or can i just make one partition and will Ghost copy all the files to that partition?

 

Any help will be gratly appreciated