About Norton's Ghost

[Wakenaam]

I want to clone the data from my 2 GB hard drive on to a 10 GB hard drive using Norton's Ghost Image. My problem is the data on my 2 GB hard drive is 1.4 Mb so the Image file will not fit on this drive. Is it possible to partition my 10 GB drive in, say, 2 partitions of 2 GB and 6 GB each and store the Image on the 2 GB partition as a slave? Then I can physically remove this drive to the C:\ drive position on the ribbon and re-create the data to the 6 MB partition from the 2 GB partition? I don't want to risk overwriting the data on my old drive. I tried drive-to-drive cloning but no success. Thanks for any help. Norton's Ghost 2003 and Windows 98SE.

[jdc2000]

You could partitoin the 10GB drive and create the Ghost image files on that, then restore it to the first partition on the 10GB drive. However, the drive cloning process should have worked. What errors or results did you get when you tried it?

[Wakenaam]

jdc2000: Thanks for the response. I am getting the mesage: "Disk I/O error. Replace the disk and then press any key" when I try to boot from the cloned drive.

[jdc2000]

That error normally indicates a hardware problem. Was the hard drive with the cloned data recognized by the BIOS during the boot process? You should have seen a BIOS message indicating that the drive was found.

Things to check:

1. Make sure that the BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive.

2. Make sure that the drive jumper is set correctly. If it is the only drive on the IDE cable, make sure that the jumper is set for Master, with no Slave.