From: Randall Parker 

Doug,

When restoring to a new disk does it provide the option of setting partition sizes on
the new target disk?

Douglas Smith wrote:
> Look at Acronis True Image (www.acronis.com).  The install will create a
> boot CD.   It also supports NT SP6.
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>  - Doug.
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> STOPtechieSPAMpunditNOW{at}STOPfutureSPAMpundit.comNOW says...
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>>I want to duplicate my hard drive which has 3 partitions onto a much bigger
hard
>>drive. I can't run the latest version of Symantec Ghost since it does not
have NT
>>listed as supported. DriveImage is no longer sold since Symantic bought
PowerQuest.
>>
>>Here is what I'd ideally like to do:
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>>1) Buy a new big EIDE hard drive.
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>>2) Install the new EIDE hard drive as the second hard drive on an NT machine.
>>
>>3) Create 3 partitions on it that are bigger than the existing 3 on the
existing hard
>>drive.
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>>4) Copy the 3 partitions (including the stuff that makes it bootable) to the
new hard
>>drive.
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>>5) Remove the old hard drive.
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>>6) Make the new hard drive into the master.
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>>7) Reboot into NT.
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>>Alternative: Backup onto CD and restore from CD to a new hard drive.
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>>1) Run software that backs up onto CD.
>>    This software has got to know how to tell the CD to run at a slower speed
because
>>it is my experience that this CD writer does not keep up if going at full
speed.
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>>2) Take out the old hard drive.
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>>3) Put in the new hard drive.
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>>4) Boot off a floppy or CD to run the restore software.
>>    I'm not clear on this point. Can all CD drives be used to boot off of?
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>>5) The restore software would have to know how to partition the new drive
with bigger
>>partitions than the old disk had. Or I'd need to partition it in advance? But
if it
>>was partitioned in advance would it be able to be made into a bootable drive
by the
>>restore?
>>
>>6) Restore from CD.
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>>7) Reboot into NO.
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>>Any suggestion for software that will let me do either of these approaches?
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