Help! Simple Ghost question

[bill]

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It's my understanding that if I image a partition (e.g. C:\ drive with
all progams and data), then restore it to a new drive, it effectively
copies the partition info as well to the destination drive.

Does this mean that if I image a 2GB drive (all one partition) to a
partition I have already formatted as a 4GB partition, that when Ghost
is done I'll end up with a 2GB partition on the new drive? I want to
copy my data and programs over, but I don't want to 'reformat' my new
partition to match my old puny one.

Thanks.
Bill

 

[GTS]

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NO! ghost scales the image up to fit the new destination drive, so you would
still have 4gb. It will even do the reverse and fit copy of a partition onto
a smaller drive - so long as there's enough room for the data...

"Bill" <bill@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> It's my understanding that if I image a partition (e.g. C:\ drive with
> all progams and data), then restore it to a new drive, it effectively
> copies the partition info as well to the destination drive.
>
> Does this mean that if I image a 2GB drive (all one partition) to a
> partition I have already formatted as a 4GB partition, that when Ghost
> is done I'll end up with a 2GB partition on the new drive? I want to
> copy my data and programs over, but I don't want to 'reformat' my new
> partition to match my old puny one.
>
> Thanks.
> Bill

 

[bill]

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"GTS" <gts123NOSPAM@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>NO! ghost scales the image up to fit the new destination drive, so you would
>still have 4gb. It will even do the reverse and fit copy of a partition onto
>a smaller drive - so long as there's enough room for the data...

Great! Thanks!