Ghosting a Hard drive

[bsi]

I need to ghost a 20G hard drive with 4 partitions to a 120G drive. Here are the particulars.

Current partitions

C: 2G
E: 1G
F: 1G
G: 16G

I want to leave C, E and F the same but allow all the new room to go to the G drive, making it go from 16G to 110G ish.

The original drive is running NT4 server on a 1999 era clone. I have no disks to reinstall anything so it has to be right. Any solution involving reinstalling won't work. I don't have motherboard drivers either.

Do I want Norton Ghost or something else? I see the latest Norton requires Win2000 or better so I do not think that will work on NT4.

The new drive is already installed as D: but I have done nothing except format it so far.

I am also open to offers to just do this for me for a fee. The box is around the Ottawa ish area, PM if you are interested.

 

[thirdtime]

Partition Magic 8 will run under NT4.
You could use it to copy the partitions to the new drive.

 

[Whisperwolf]

If you use something like ghost, or Acronis Easy Migrate (a program I've found quite handy) then you can move all the partitions over as is, making it 2-1-1-16-free space. You can then instruct the last partition to assimilate the free space and it will become the entire rest of the disk capacity.

 

[WoodPeckr]

I've used Seagate's DiscWizard™ several times. It's a good easy to use app. Somebody said it was a modified version of that Acronis program on another thread.
Seagate DiscWizard is a free download available from the Seagate website.

 

[bsi]

I've used Seagate's DiscWizard™ several times. It's a good easy to use app. Somebody said it was a modified version of that Acronis program on another thread.
Seagate DiscWizard is a free download available from the Seagate website.

This looks great and in fact, the new drive is a Seagate. However, the website does not show NT as an OS choice is the "drive prep" section. Do you know if this will work under NT 4 server?

Although it seems I have nothing to lose by trying it.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Do you know if this will work under NT 4 server?

Although it seems I have nothing to lose by trying it.

I've only used DiscWizard with XP.
DiscWizard says it works for Windows so who knows.
DiscWizard does setup HDD partitions, format and copy over files from HDD to HDD so it may work.

 

[tboy]

I may be clueless but what the hell is ghosting? I thought I heard em all.....

The easy way would be to just copy all the files into whatever area of the 120 g drive you want then just reformat/repartition the 20 g drive....(unless of course you are running apps from the 20 g partitions)

 

[thirdtime]

Ghosting is also known as drive imaging, or image backup. It records an image of your partition or drive, sector by sector instead of file by file. It creates one large file, usually compressed.