best way to clone a hard drive

Mr. Ali · 04-08-2006, 03:41 PM

i want to know the best way to clone a 20gb hard drive to a 120gb one. the 20gb is a windows boot drive that i want to upgrade on my server system without having to reformat. i want the end result to be a 120gb drive with 18gb used with 100gb free or whatever, assuming the 20gb was full. in other words, i dont want like a 20gb partition on my 120gb, i want it to stay as one full 120gb drive.

edit: to clairify, im mostly interested in what software i should use.

Lazaredz · 04-08-2006, 07:21 PM

I've used norton ghost twice with good results. Same results, old smaller hd to a new larger hd with no additional partition.

ivwshane · 04-08-2006, 07:38 PM

Ghost.

jlo1986 · 04-09-2006, 10:16 AM

Acronis Ture Image is good it worked really well for me using the free trail on thier website.

woodsman707 · 04-13-2006, 05:42 PM

yeah, Ghost FTW.

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Mr. Ali Lord Of Porn Jan 2005 Last Seen: Today Location: CA, USA Posts: 3,536 (#20) Thanked 4x in 4 posts x34	i want to know the best way to clone a 20gb hard drive to a 120gb one. the 20gb is a windows boot drive that i want to upgrade on my server system without having to reformat. i want the end result to be a 120gb drive with 18gb used with 100gb free or whatever, assuming the 20gb was full. in other words, i dont want like a 20gb partition on my 120gb, i want it to stay as one full 120gb drive. edit: to clairify, im mostly interested in what software i should use.
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Lazaredz Conspiracy of One Jan 2005 Last Seen: 11-06-2007 Posts: 1,013 (#87) Thanked 0x in 0 posts x0	I've used norton ghost twice with good results. Same results, old smaller hd to a new larger hd with no additional partition.
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ivwshane Dont mess with old school Jan 2005 Last Seen: Yesterday Location: CA Posts: 4,148 (#15) Thanked 2x in 2 posts x55	Ghost.

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woodsman707 Junior Member Apr 2006 Last Seen: 04-28-2008 Posts: 11 (#284) Thanked 0x in 0 posts x0	yeah, Ghost FTW.

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