Hi,

I recently got Norton Ghost 10.0.  Currently I have two partitions on
the hard drive.  1. C drive 100 GB and 2. D drive 60 GB.  I only have
about 10 MB full on the C drive and hardly anything on the D drive.

I want to make a full image of the C drive and the D drive using Ghost
on to an external drive.

After that I want to reformat the drives C and D and change the
partition sizes.  I want to make C smaller, say 20 GB or so.  This way
I can keep all my data separate from the system drive.

After the reformat, will I be able to restore the image to the new C
drive?  If I am able to do it, should I do anything with the MBR on the
new C drive?

Thanks in advance.

-Ragu

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tumkurr@hotmail.com wrote:
>I recently got Norton Ghost 10.0.  Currently I have two partitions on
>the hard drive.  1. C drive 100 GB and 2. D drive 60 GB.  I only have
>about 10 MB full on the C drive and hardly anything on the D drive.
>
>I want to make a full image of the C drive and the D drive using Ghost
>on to an external drive.
>
>After that I want to reformat the drives C and D and change the
>partition sizes.  I want to make C smaller, say 20 GB or so.  This way
>I can keep all my data separate from the system drive.
>
>After the reformat, will I be able to restore the image to the new C
>drive?  If I am able to do it, should I do anything with the MBR on the
>new C drive?

Short answer is yes.

However a simpler solution would be to use a partition manager to
resize your partitions, without reformatting.

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeof...ex.htm
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Partition Manager is one, but there are other good ones also.

1. First always take a full image backup and verify it's integrity.
2. Use Partition Manger (or others) to shrink d:
3. enlarge c:

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User <noemail@notme.com> wrote:
>
>However a simpler solution would be to use a partition manager to
>resize your partitions, without reformatting.
>
>http://www.symantec.com/home_homeof...ex.ht
ml
>
>Partition Manager is one, but there are other good ones also.
>
>1. First always take a full image backup and verify it's integrity.
>2. Use Partition Manger (or others) to shrink d:
>3. enlarge c:

Sorry, meant to say Partition Magic.

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If I remember then Ghost 10 online backup component bases on PoweQuest V2i
Protector.
It is sector-based incremental backup with online changed sectors log. If
you change partition offline,
then ghost dont know about changes and while next incremental backup storage
becomes corrupted.
If you change partition online, then ghost sees that all sectors are changed
and incremental backup
looses its meaning.

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"Fredi" <.> wrote:
>If I remember then Ghost 10 online backup component bases on PoweQuest V2i
>Protector.
>It is sector-based incremental backup with online changed sectors log. If
>you change partition offline,
>then ghost dont know about changes and while next incremental backup storag
e
>becomes corrupted.
>If you change partition online, then ghost sees that all sectors are change
d
>and incremental backup
>looses its meaning.

Correct.  After resizing, and you're happy with everything, you should
take another full independent backup of c: and d:

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