Re: How to use Ghost 9 for notebook HDD upgrade

When you create the image make sure that you check the box for "Verify"
image. This will let you know that the image was created successfully and
checks out as competant.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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"xfile" <cou-cou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Appreciate your detailed explanations and I now have a clear
understanding.

Just to make sure I understand it correctly,

(1) I do have a second HDD on the desktop and sorry for I did not mention
it and you were correct that I use Ghost from the desktop system to create
an image store at the D: (second) drive of the desktop.

(2) I have to use Ghost to boot from the notebook to perform the restore
process. In this case, I'd be better to follow your original suggestion
and put the image (close to 30G) to the external USB and use Ghost to boot
up the system with the new HDD installed.

The only thing concerns me is, in this case, I have to clean up the old
HDD first so it would have enough space to store the image.

I might be too paranoid, but based on my past unpleasant experiences, I
always wanted to make sure new files (systems) are correct before I wiped
out the old files (or systems). But in this case, I'd have to clean out
the old drive (for space) and rely solely on the image and pray for Ghost
would do the right job. This makes me a bit of nervous.

So my thought about using desktop to do the restore process and then just
put the newly restored HDD to the notebook was hoping this could somehow
eliminate me from wiping out the old HDD first.

(3) I guess for my case, I'd choose "all space" during the restore process
for which will create one partition and place everything into that
partition, and after that would have around 60G partitioned space
remained. The old drive is indeed a 40G and new drive is 100G.

So I guess unallocated means un-partitioned so user can choose to
partition at a later time.

Thanks again for your kind advise and hope I understand you correctly.



"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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"xfile" <cou-cou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Thanks for your kind and detailed advise.

After reading your suggestions, it came to my mind and can I do the
following:

(1) create an image and place it in the desktop's HDD (it has plenty of
space),


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This can only be done if you have a second hard drive in your computer.
You didn't say that you have. You can not create an image of the drive
that the operating system is located upon "unless" you have the original
drive partitioned to begin with. Then you could image the windows
partition (usually drive C:) and place the image on drive D:

You could then use that image and restore the image to the new hard
drive. You would have to put the OLD drive in an external USB enclosure.
Put the NEW drive in the notebook. Then boot up from the Ghost CD and
restore the image to the new hard drive.
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(2) attach the new HDD with an external USB box to the desktop,


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See above!
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(3) launch Ghost 9 from within the desktop and restore the image to the
attached new HDD.

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Wrong. You would boot up the laptop from the Ghost CD to carry out the
manlipuations.
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However, I am not sure if I have to partition the new HDD first so XP
Pro (the desktop) will recognize the new HDD? This question also applies
to if I am using the approach you advised.

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You don't have to partition anything. Restoring the Ghost image to the
new drive creates exactly what you had. If you had a 40 gig partition as
NTFS on the old drive, that is what you will have on the new drive -
unless YOU decide to use the whole drive (if it is larger that the old
one).
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Could you kindly explain what is the difference of using "all" space and
"unallocated" for extra space?

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If your old drive was 40 gig, and the new drive is 100 gig, you can elect
to have 40 gig assigned on the new drive for the operating system -
exactly the same as the old drive. The remainder of the space is
"unallocated". You can create another partition in the unallocated space
after you have the computer up and running again.
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I wish just to have one partition and to restore everything into the
partition and use the remaining space for storing additional data.

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See directly above.
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For example, the total size of the current HDD used is 35G, and I am
going to upgrade to a 100G HDD. So after restoring the image, I wish to
have around 65G space remaining so I could put additional garbage into
it.

Thanks for your kind help.



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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!






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