[ltp] Re: Cloning a hard disk?

[Bert Haskins]

Andrew Crawford wrote:

>Hi Bert,
>
>I have done it both with older versions of Ghost and using Partition
>Image (previously described).  If you create a partition of the same
>size on the destination disk and, restore/copy your partition there, you
>can use software like Partition Editor (parted - available on the
>previously-mentioned System Rescue CD) or (the commercial package)
>Partition Magic to resize the partition to the desired size.
>
>I'm not quite sure what you mean by "copy but do not restore properly."
>
Ghost will do the copy with no complaints, but when I try to restore the 
copy
there doesn't seem to be any magic incantation that it will accept.
Includeing the examples that they have in their docs.
Don't they ever try those things before publishing them?
ghost -clone,mode=pdump,src=1:2,dst=g:\part2.gho ( g: is a mapped 
network drive).
part2.gho  was then burned to a cd and verified on several different cd 
drives..

ghost -clone,mode=pdload,src=e:\part2.gho,dst=1:2
I honestly have forgotten the error message that this and many, many 
variations
of the theme produced but I tried for hours and could not find anything 
that would work.

I'm not a big fan of partition magic either.
It seems that  if you set up the HD with anything else PM with just exit 
with an error code after
loading.
I've even seen PM error out on disks that I set up using PM.
Once again there were no error messages before exiting the program.
The very worst of all though are the "disk mangler" programs that have 
come with WD and Maxtor
hard drives.

> Is the copied (destination) partition just completely unreadable after
>you are done?  Or something else?
>
>Andrew Crawford
>
>Bert Haskins wrote:
>  
>
>>This is a slight twist on the topic but:
>>Has anyone had success with doing a partition copy/restore
>>where the restore partition is larger than the one that is copied?
>>This seems to work for me but only on the the first partition.
>>The second and later partitions copy but do not restore properly.
>>This is especially true with Simantac Ghost which makes it just
>>about worthless to me.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>  Bert
>>
>>    
>>