Ghosting HDDs

[Ri0]

I'm going to be purchasing a samsung 120GB SATA drive. I currently have an 80GB PATA drive that is partitioned into a ~6GB and ~73GB partition. WIll I be able to partition the 120GB SATA into a ~10GB section and ghost the 6GB over? And the same for the 73GB to the rest of the ~110GB on the SATA.

I've never used norton ghost, but I am hoping it is fairly straight forward and simple. I'd appreciate feedback from those who have done it.

 

[dandelion]

Yeah you can do that. Shouldn't be any problems though I've never used it with SATA drives, Just make sure the drive is visible through Ghost and it will work fine. Ghost is really self explanitory and quite easy to use, its very fast as well. A great program, good luck!

 

[Sonny]

If your OS is on the 6G partition & your hoping to use the 10G partition on the SATA drive it may not boot for not having the correct drivers installed.

 

[Ri0]

I was hoping to boot from the SATA. Move everything from the 80 to the 120 and use it. THe 80 would then be removed from my PC.

 

[shadowdr]

I would first make an emergency repair disk.Consult help for particulars if necessary(It's very easy). Install the SATA drivers in windows and shut down,install the drive and reboot.enter the bios and enable SATA checking the manual if necessary,save and exit.In raid you would then press the appropriate button to enter the raid bios(I am assuming that sata is the same as raid because it is seen as scsi,but I don't have sata so I am not sure)and setup the drive as a single as apposed to a raid drive.exit and boot into windows.Go to administrative tools ,disk management.From there partition and format the way you want it. I would use "basic" partitions,you are allowed up to four per drive.Restart Using your ghost boot disk and use the partition to partition and copy the appropriate one's.Exit and shut down,Remove the Ide drive and reboot.Re-enter bios and set the boot order to scsi(or whatever the manual might say), exit and save.It should boot up now.

There can be pratfalls with some drive changes,but if you have your emergency disk you can always put the drive back in and start over with no data loss.That is a bunch of words for so little to do, but it's pretty straight forward I hope.Good luck.

 

[Ri0]

Ummm... SATA is another data channel like PATA.

 

[shadowdr]

Sorry ,I thought your mobo had sata raid and the mobo sees the drive as an scsi device.Does it have two sata slots on the mobo?