Need some Norton Ghost help

[John Prophet]

I am having some problems with norton ghost 7.5

I have used it many many times but never had these problems.

Ok, I went to ghost a dudes old pentium 1 Dell....he had a 10G hard drive which I knew he only had about 1.3G of data on.

So I took an 8.5g hard drive with me.....it gave me the error message "destination drive too small.

Hmm, I have always been under the impression that it didnt calculate empty space etc.....so I had to drive back home, leaving the guys comp down.....the next size drive I had readily available was a 60G.....so I took it and ghosted his stuff to it....using "disk to disk".....it gave me an error message then saying that "the bios of this machine doesnt may not support a drive this big..some partitions may be unaccessable"...so I ghosted it anyway.

Well I get home and I am gonna ghost the 60g drive with his 1.3g of data onto the 10g drive in a dell p3 I am selling him.


Well of course it wont let me do it...if I do "disk to disk" it says "destination drive too small.

I then saw that it would let me do "partition to partition" so I did it...but when it boots, it asks for the name of the command interpreter etc etc.


Arggghhhh.

When I run fdisk and look at it, it says the partition is a non-dos partition.


How can I fix this????

If the 60g ghosted drive somehow got copied as a non-dos partition (due to the bios error message etc) what can I do to fix this?






I have partition magic...is there anyway to fix it using that???




Helpppppppp, thanks, JP

[Foggy]

Not sure if it will work for you but Partition Magic has a convert function for Fat/fat32/NTFS. :=)

[MTAtech]

Instead of doing a disk to disk, do a disk to image onto the 10GB drive.

[Steve R Jones]

Are you wanting to use an image of one machine onto another that has completly differnt hardware and will crash and burn big time when you try to start it?