Jordan
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Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject:
Re: Resize Partition |
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Pretty much.
Disk space on the current drive is irrelevant and Ghost does not have to be
installed on the computer that you are going to upgrade with larger drives.
If you have Ghost installed on another PC all you need to do is make a DOS
boot disk. The wizard for this is included in Ghost and is simply either an
MSDOS or PCDOS boot disk with the Ghost.exe program on it which can copy
NTFS, FAT, FAT32, and other partitions from one drive to another.
After you make the boot disk, test it first by booting the Windows NT, 2K,
or 2K3 box with the disk and see if you can see the other drives. If you
can then you are good to go and break your mirror. If not, see my comments
later.
Next, boot Windows, break the mirror, and shutdown
Next, remove the mirror drive and put in the new higher capacity drive so
that you have one of the old and one of the new.
Next boot the PC with the Ghost disk. When copying you can choose Partition
to file, Partition to Partition, or Drive to Drive. You want to choose
Drive to Drive. Ghost will ask you the drive to copy from, and the drive to
copy to. There are text boxes on the "To" drive where you can specify the
partition size. If your old drive has multiple partition, you can even
specify the new sizes and they don't have to be the same % as before. They
only need to be at least the same size as the old one, naturally.
Once you finish copying the drive, remove the last of the old drives, put
this new drive in the primary position and put the second new blank drive in
the backup position then boot the computer.
Next go back into Disk Manager and re-establish the mirror(s).
Now I noted earlier that incase you don't see the drives there are more
steps. This depends on your RAID setup. If you are using the IDE
controller on your MOBO you should not have a problem. If you are using a
SCSI card and the SCSI card does not support booting with a DOS disk without
special drivers you may need to get the ASPI drivers for that SCSI card in
order to see the drives in DOS. **You don't need to be able to read the
partitions booting to DOS because Ghost will do that. You only need DOS to
be able to indentify that there is a drive there.
Also, as always, be sure your computer can work with the larger drive size.
Some of the latest drives are over 200MB and some computers can't handle
that.
"Robert" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DEC3CF50-7BB3-4CAD-AD4F-52BB7E6B257D@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | Hi Jordan,
When you mentioned breaking the mirrored drive, which I am familiar with,
that's not a problem. But how would you install Norton Ghost if you do not |
have enough disk space on C drive? I am not familiar with Norton Ghost, so
you were saying that break the mirrored disk, install the new larger
capacity H/D to replace the other existing H/D, then using Norton Ghost
software you can transfer the O/S, Application (say SQL), and the partition
data to the new larger H/D. And then pull-out the full-capacity H/D,
re-install the other new large H/D, then mirror it. Please concur if this
was the procedures you followed when you did the H/D upscale. Thanks for
the info. |
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