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Re: Norton Ghost vs. Drive Image vs. ??
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:09:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Daniel Crichton writes:


My advice - don't use Ghost or Drive Image. Get Partition Magic. I did this
last year with my work PC - install Partition Magic under W2K (has to be
Pro, it won't install under Server as you would need to buy Server Magic
instead which is much more expensive), create the 2 boot disks, then boot
from them. You can now do an exact copy of the partition on your old drive
to your new drive using the copy option (it can also be used to make a copy
of a partition to the same physical drive which is useful if you need to
keep a virgin install around in case you mess up the active one). When
that's done reboot using the boot disks again, and resize the partition on
the new drive to the full size of the drive and make it active. Then shut
down the machine, make the new drive the master (or however you handle it on
a laptop!), and when it boots up you should find that you have the exact
same W2K installation but with more space available.

Thanks. I wasn't sure I followed you on creating two boot disks, though.
Could you elaborate on that a bit? Wouldn't one be sufficient? (assuming the
boot disk enables Partition Magic to use NTFS formatted drives)



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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gs58o4.Hnv@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Sorry, I should have explained that part. Partition Magic creates the boot disks - one to boot from, the other you insert when it asks which (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Gs3HBz.H0L@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) one (...) want (...) get (...) leftover (...) My advice - don't use Ghost or Drive Image. Get Partition Magic. I did this last year with my work (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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