Norton Ghost and disk sizes

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Norton Ghost and disk sizes - 08/26/06 04:55 PM

I have a number of Norton Ghost v9 backup images on a 186 GB external hard drive I was using for that purpose. They were from a 120 GB hard disk. I replaced the 120 GB hard drive with a 320 GB hard drive. I can't get Ghost 9 to back up an image from the 320 GB drive to the smaller 186 GB drive even though there's only 40 GB of information I want to store.

There's not much information on Ghost I can find at Symantic. Could my problems be coming from the changes in the source drive size?

Mike

Re: Norton Ghost and disk sizes - 08/26/06 09:40 PM

Are those previous Ghost backups still on the smaller drive?

Maybe there is not enough space left for the backup.

Re: Norton Ghost and disk sizes - 08/29/06 04:11 AM

No, there's 60 gig on the target drive with only 40 gig on the source drive. Thanks and please, I welcome further suggestions.
Mike

Re: Norton Ghost and disk sizes - 08/29/06 05:53 AM

Lots of info here: http://ghost.radified.com/

May want to post your problem on the radified forum: http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=general