How to ghost a Win2000 NTFS HD

[verT]

Hey all you 2000 gurus I am using Norton Ghost and I want to swap my 10GB HD for my 20GB HD. The 10GB has 2 partitions on it. I have used Ghost before but only on Win9X setups and never on a NT setup. I tried it and am getting "your pagefile is too small" errors. What gives? It's not urgent that I do this but I want the 20GB in this 'pooter. If I do this then I can set up my other P!!! :D

[Yo_Mama]

Have you tried booting from a floppy & running it from there?

[viperdog]

Just looking at the norton site it says norton ghost 6.02 and prior can only support sector by sector copy for w2k. So copying a 10 gig to a 20gig will not work.

What version of ghost do you have?

Maybe you just need to upgrade from the norton site?

Looks like none of them work for dynamic partitions...

[wbierman]

No Dynamic Disk support is currently a limitation. In those situations I use NTbackup. Do a quick installation and then just restore.

Power Quest's Drive Image 4 only works on Win2K Pro, it will not load on Server or Advanced Server.

[Bruce]

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[MikeTimbers]

You need Ghost 2001. Boot of a floppy and access the CD. Run ghostpe.exe

Copy Disk to Disk.

Follow the on-screen stuff. It really is pretty simple but you need Ghost 2001.

[verT]

Hmm.... I'm using 2001 right now and tried a trial version of 7.0 enterprise both with no luck (disk to disk won't recognise with NTFS it looks like). I'll give the restore trick a shot tomorrow. Thanks for the sugestions guys.

Just for the record
Win2000 pro
Dynamic NTFS Simple Volumes

Cheers

[MikeTimbers]

I don't get this. Ghost can't know anything about your page file because W2K isn't running.

Have you tried copying the partitions individually to your new disk?

[Azzuron]

Ill be doing this tonight, i got a 30 gig NTFS drive with win2k pro. got some sector issues, thus, i got a enw drive gonna ghost it over, and then send the IBM back. then when i get the ibm disk back again and get my money back ;)

Ill let you know how it goes. Im only doing one partition tho.

[verT]

I have a feeling it was the smaller drive being a little dodgey. Had a lot of weird stuff going on with it "phantom partitions, NTFS going into Fat32 etc". It was just my gaming rig so nothing lost, BACKUP people. I think a trip down to the local puter shop is in order I "need" a nice shiny new HD now!

Thanks again for the sugestions and all the help

[Azzuron]

Grab a few for me to. What the hell a 512 stick of ram to ;)