How to copy or "Ghost" a drive

[bryant]

I'm sorry, my mistake, I meant a hard drive. Now I will repeat the post above. sheesh?


" read above post now" ?

[bryant]

Oh, as I stated, I remember going thru a process where I had to completely wipe clean the ghost HD (not good when you are ghosting a 40 mB HD onto an 80 mB HD.)
But anyway, I went thru this about a month ago.

Probably time to "reghost" and was wondering if I have to go thru all those intial steps again, boot disc, clean out HD again, and start over?

[ddouglass]

What software are you using that requires all that?

This is the part I don't understand. "But it says you have to use up the complete drive and have nothing else on it, and it highly suggested that you make a boot disk." How do you use up a complete drive?

[mindonstrike]

Thanks guys for the replies.
I was afraid I might have to go that route but thought I would check first just in case there was a "lazy mans way" of doing it.

Sam

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

What software are you using that requires all that?

This is the part I don't understand. "But it says you have to use up the complete drive and have nothing else on it, and it highly suggested that you make a boot disk." How do you use up a complete drive?

acronis true image

[ddouglass]

Don't know anything about that one.

[bryant]

How does it work in Norton then . I imagine it would be quite parallel to it?

[George]

We all advised you a month or two back to buy Norton Ghost. Apparantly you went shopping and found a program for $20.00 less.

If you want a detailed account on how Norton Ghost differs, buy it. We are not familiar with the program you bought and therefore can't explain the differences to you.

All I know is neither Dale or I ever heard of the program paramaters you are describing.