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using ghost to upgrade to a larger primary HD

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6/4/04 at 1:42am
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anybody with ghost experience, can you tell me:

I want to get rid of my old 10Gb C: drive and replace it with something nice and big (say, an 80 Gb drive).

C: has XP and all "my documents."

I have Ghost 2003.

If I put the new drive in secondary, and clone C: to it, what will Ghost do to the new drive? Will it make a 10Gb partition with the contents of C:, and another 70 Gb partition with the empty space?

I hope not, I'd rather just have one big 80 Gb partition, but have everything from the old C: drive migrated over perfectly so I can just put it in primary, boot and go.

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6/4/04 at 3:29am
If I remember correctly (been a while since I cloned a disk), Ghost should ask you what the new size(s) should be on the destination disk beforehand. By default it should expand to entire disk.

I'd recommend that you first setup the disk in Windows as D: and run tests on it (e.g. chkdisk) to make sure that it is OK, before you trust it to hold your stuff.

--TSK
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