Has anyone here SUCCESSFULLY used ghost.exe to transfer their entire HD, that is, DOS, Windows and all, to a formatted, larger, new HD and have the new one be the master, bootable and all? I'm going from my old HD, 450Meg, to a new one, 1.??Gig. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm looking for pointers before I do. Thanks.

Quickie pointers: First make/test a good boot disk. Also make/test a bare-bones boot disk, which includes Ghost.exe. Was always more comfy using DOS/Fdisk for partitioning, setting active partition. etc. Especially for the first time, use the simple DOS/GUI menuing in Ghost. Be very, very careful -- even here. Don't, for example, restore an imaged single partition to replace a complete (multi-partitioned) HD. Ghost is as unforgiving as can be. Also, it doesn't recognize drive letters, per se. Instead, it simply restores to, for example, 2nd hard drive - 3rd partition...or 2:3. Understand what drives are so assigned these types of ID's. Would further suggest that you print and study their pdf file. As you assume comfiness w/ Ghost, you'll likely want to utilize the available command switches with unattended batch files. Giant HD's and sector backup programs like Ghost are fast becoming the preferred day-to-day backup system. They're quite fast and allow complete DOS-based backup/restore w/ system/hidden files, LFN's -- the works. Hope this helps.

Yes, I have used Ghost 5 & 6 successfully to clone and restore hard drives. I've even made bootable cd-roms containing the Ghost software and the image file--it works great! I keep a Ghost image of basic Win95/98 installs to use on new pc's rather than going thru a 30 minute install. Best way to do what you want is: Install both hard drives in your machine. Boot to a floppy, then insert your floppy with Ghost on it. Follow the prompts to create an image choosing your 450 meg hard drive as the source to copy and your 1 gig as the destination for the image file. You may want to use high compression. After you have the Image file created, you should boot up the 450 meg HD and copy the image from the 1 gig to the 450 (since you won't be able to restore the image FROM the 1 gig TO the 1 gig). BTW, I just bouth a 30gig IBM drive for $170, can't say I'd really waste time with a 1 gig drive. Hope this helps.

The best way to transfer the 450 meg to the 1 gig is to make the 450 meg a slave drive and the 1 gig the master drive. This is the process to do it. 1) Make a bootable disk, then copy ghost.exe to the disk. 2) OPen up your computer, connect the new 1 gig drive, change the 1 gig drive to make it the primary master and either make the 450 meg drive the secondary master or the primary slave (you will need to change jumpers to do this, I assume you know how) 3) Plug everything in and boot with that floppy. Run Ghost.exe and chose local, then disk, then to disk. Then as your source choose the 450 meg drive and as the destination choose the 1 gig drive. Make sure you choose drive to drive and not partion to partion. If you choose partition to partition you will be stuck with a 450 meg partition on the 1 gig drive. Thats it! The only problems you may encounter is if you use a program that alters the boot sector such as a disk manager program or a OS switcher like System Commander.. Hope this helps! E-mail me if you have further questions!

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