Re: Server 08, ghost to smaller drive/partition?

"Leythos"

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OK, just Ghosted the 500GB partition to a 128GB partition (resized) on a
250GB drive that was new (had not been used).

Got the exact same error that I did with any other method.

Have you actually restored a "Partition" Ghost image of Win 2008?

No, but I Ghosted Vista RTM.
I used Ghost from Ghost Solution Suite 2.0

OK. Now I remember something.

I always created partition in advance. In the old days (WinXP/2003), I used GDISK and GDISK32 partitioning utility from Ghost. GDISK is 16-bit, GDISK32 is 32-bit. Syntax is more or less the same. When you use GDISK32, you need WinPE.
The syntax is something like this (please check with gdisk32 /?):

# 1st we wipe the disk 0
GDISK32 0 /WIPE /MBR

# 2nd, on disk 0, we create partition, size=250GB
GDISK32 0 /CRE /PRI /SIZE:250000

#3rd, we set disk 0, partition 1 as active
GDISK32 0 /ACT /P:1

Now we can restore ghosted partition using GHOST or GHOST32.

Today, I'm using WinPE from WAIK and MDT and I'm using ImageX. Only occasionaly I use Ghost to restore some old image.

For Vista/2008 I use DISKPART utility to create partition.

Diskpart
select disk 0

# wipe the disk
clean

create partition primary size=250000

active

# quick format, creates NTFS by default
format quick

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After this, you can use ImageX or Ghost to restore the image.

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Several times I also ran into boot trouble.

# for Vista/2008 you need to write MBR and boot sector to C:
# bootsect is included in WinPE (built from WAIK and or MDT).
bootsect /nt60 C: /MBR

You may also need to get familiarized with bcdedit command, or download freeware VistaBootPro.

Good luck.


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