Also what does the log:c: command do since that particular drive isn’t part of the equation.
Assign F: to the new partition then the robocopy command line will need editing from E: to F:
/log:c:\rclog.txt
This writes a log to the C: drive.
When you restart the computer after the copy has completed you will have to change the drive letter to D: in Disk Management as it will still be F:
so in the command line, I could just change every e: to an F: to match the way the computer currently sits and that would be alright?
robocopy D:\ F:\ *.* /e /efsraw /copyall /dcopy:t /r:0 /log:c:\rclog.txt /v /xj /tee
Only one change.
I typed the line into the command line and I received an error. I'm not savvy enough to figure out just what looks wrong, but I believe I typed it right. Here is the screenshot....
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h223/dinger928/Norton%20Ghost%2015%20SP1/cmdprompt_zpsae596c40.jpg
Did you open the Command Prompt as an Administrator? It looks like it is an Admin.
Try...
robocopy D:\ F:\ *.* /e /efsraw /copyall /dcopy:t /r:0 /v /xj /tee
or
robocopy D:\ F:\ *.* /e /efsraw /copyall /dcopy:t /r:0 /log:f:\rclog.txt /v /xj /tee
Ok, after the festivities of christmas I returned home to see this screen shot:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h223/dinger928/Norton%20Ghost%2015%20SP1/cmd_zps26131042.jpg
Is this sufficient for a copy? I noticed there were a couple of files missing.
Thanks again for all the help. I know I could not figure this one out on my own.....
That looks great. Whatever was skipped were probably empty folders as it copied all files.
Does the new HD work? Remember to make it D: drive.
Sorry for the long delay. I have finally had the time now to hook the drive up and use it for a period of time. This appears to have done the trick. It successfully loaded itself onto a smaller drive and all the things appear to be working. My question though is this since the copy of ghost didn't particularly work for the intentions that I had. Can ghost not copy drives for the sole purpose of replicating them to another drive regardless of whether or not there are program files installed onto it? So basically all that I can now use ghost for is to clone the original c: if I wanted to go to a larger drive? I appear to be lost even more now.
Thanks for all of those that helped. I really do appreciate it.
Dinger928,
Ghost is able to copy/image any partition. In my case I only use it for OS partitions but others use it for data partitions.
Was there something in particular that was not allowing me to use the product the way I thought it should of instead of using the robocopy command? I guess I'm struggling to figure out why this wouldn't just image the d: in its entirety the way I think it should have.
Ghost does sector based restores/copies so if your original partition was....( * is sectors in use, - is free space)
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then the target partition to restore/copy into can not be smaller than...
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It would have worked if you had resized the D: partition to less than 320 GB and then used Ghost.