From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Don't change the number of partions when expanding the drive.  Keep them
the same number, and leave extra unused space when using ghost.  Then, when
you bring the system back up on the new drive, add the extra partitions if
you want.

If you go to the new 250 gig and larger, keep all the expanded partions
below 137 (or whatever the magic number is), until you've upgraded the OS,
then there should be a supplied utility with the drive that you'll need to
run to allow full use of the extra space.

At least that's what I've had to do on all my 160 gig and larger drives.

--
Glenn M.


"vwheeler"  wrote in message
news:41d7032b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I did my NT4 with an older version (4 or 5) of Partition Magic. PM will
> not run in NT however it works fine from the bootable floppy/CD. The
> only problem I had was the Boot.ini file PM modified it adjusting for
> the  additional partitions.
>
>
> Randall Parker wrote:
> > Geo,
> >
> > I have 1.73 Gigs used on the C: drive. How many CDs would that take? 3?
> > For some reason I was expecting CDs to be too small for the job. But
> > maybe not.
> >
> > DriveImage: It uses .NET and they do /not/ list NT as a supported OS.
> > See here:
> >
http://www.pcplus.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=19356&subsec
tionid=373&subsubsectionid=65
> >
> >
> > Worse yet, they do not appear to sell DriveImage any more. PowerQuest
> > was bought by Symantec and now the link to DriveImage 7 resolves to a
> > Ghost page. Check out here:
> >    http://www.powerquest.com/
> >
> > Norton Ghost doesn't list NT as supported either:
> >    http://www.powerquest.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
> >
> > Partition Magic does list NT as supported:
> >    http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
> >
> > So do I have any other choices besides PartitionMagic?
> >
> > Geo wrote:
> >
> >> use ghost or driveimage to backup to CD, install new drive, restore
> >> from the
> >> drive image and it should allow you to make any or all of the
partitions
> >> larger, then upgrade to W2K.
> >>
> >> That's what I did with my laptop when moving from a 40g to an 80g drive
> >> except instead of CD I used one of those external USB drives as the
image
> >> device.
> >>
> >> Geo.
> >>

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