Question about Ghost and similar proggies
 

I have a 12 gig drive that's almost full, so I ordered an 80 gig one from western digital.
I've been using symantec ghost to do my backups to CD's.
My question is, doesn't ghost copy the partition information as well? So if I pop in the 80 gig drive and then run ghost to load all of my stuff onto it, will windows still only see 12 gigs of the drive? (There's no info in the ghost help docs concerning this)

What's the best way to upgrade the HD and not lose any data?

BTW, I'm running windows 2000 in case that matters.

You will see all the 12 GBs of your info and the rest of the free hdd space. I have used Norton Ghost numerous times for this actually too many times to count.

-Nato

go go go ghost! Yeah, you will see the entire drive when you ghost to the 80 gig. Just make sure your sizes are correct when you do the ghost to ghost and don't ghost to the wrond drive :)

Ok well my plans are....(I've never had to actually restore using ghost) to ghost the whole drive, shut down, take out the 12GB drive, pop in the 80 GB drive, and then boot up using the ghost floppy.

Should that do the trick? Or do I need another proggie to set the partitions on the new drive?

You do not need another program. You should be able to do this totally with Ghost. You also do not need to use the ghost floppy. Mine is bootable so all I normally do is this:

I will put the second hard drive in, put in the ghost cd and then reboot. At dos prompt, type in cd tools
then type
ghostpe

and then it will prompt you for details

Just basically enter enter enter but make sure you are writing from the 12 GB to the 80GB and not the other way around ok? ;)

Then afterwards take out the 12 GB and change your secondary hard drive to become the primary hdd. And then you are ready to go. :)

-Nato

I can't do it that way because I don't have an open drive bay, the 80 gig is going in the same slot that the 12 gig is in now.
So I'm going to have to backup and restore from cdrom's.

you don't have to have the computer completely assembled during the ghosting. :)

Open the side to your computer find that secondary cable and set your jumpers of your 80 GB hdd to secondary. You will find the directions on your hdd normally. Look at the diagram, it is NOT rocket science. :)

Now go into your BIOS set up and then check to ensure you got two damn drives. :)

Next, put your GHOST CD into the CD Rom or CDRW or DVRD or whatever shit. And boot from CD. And follow the instructions above.

-Nato