Ghost was great for the kind of work I did several years ago, but the
first time I tried it on Win XP it didn't work, and I've never tried
it since.  I imagine that problem is resolved now (this was just after
the introduction of WinXP).

However, I just purchased a new drive for my laptop from NewEgg and
purchased a HD upgrade kit for another $50 (apricorn EZ-UP-Universal
with EZ Gig II software).  It's overkill, but I just didn't want to
fuss with finding a good program and dealing with it.

I did have to fiddle with it - the automatic settings increased the
size of all the partitions, and I wanted to keep the two DELL
partitions the same size as the original and give the increase all to
my main partition.

However it worked flawlessly - I put the new drive in the provided USB
enclosure, booted off the CD, and hour later swapped the drives, and
everything has been fine ever since.  I'll probably be using the
software on my wife's computer soon.

Ghost is overkill for this type of operation, but it should work fine.
 When it does fail, it can be really frustrating, but so far I've
never had it damage the original data - at worst it stops with an
error message.  As a point of reference, I've used Ghost, Drive Image,
and Partition magic.

For those that are curious, Ghost does a sector by sector copy only
when it does not understand the file system.  Otherwise it can resize
the partitions.  I used to do this quite often with Netware 3 servers,
which had a dos partition and a netware volume.  It would offer to
resize the FAT32 partition, but would always do a sector by sector
copy of the netware volume.  Further, you can copy and restore
individual partitions.  It wouldn't resize partitions in place though.

-Adam

On 9/13/06, John Ferrell <johnferrell@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I asked a while back and was not comfortable with the answers, I thought I would try again....
>
> My Windows XP Pro C: drive is getting a little tight on space. It is a 60G drive with 8.3G free at the moment. I would like to Clone it to a larger drive. Regening the system always results in a few losses.
>
> Norton Ghost is supposed to do it as I read the advertising.
>
> Would anyone care to share any related experiences?
>
> John Ferrell    W8CCW
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