Old Weird Ward
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
- - - - - Adventures in IT - - - - -
For you non-techies, this may be a little dense. Not too dense, just a little dense. If you want to skip it, that's fine. But if you ever have to wipe your system slick and start over again, you may want to hang in there, because OWW can maybe save you some grief.
One of the machines I have to support at SGO (Small Governmental Organization) has a hard disk that's 95% full. Four people share this machine, generate lots of pics of accident and fire investigation scenes, plus all the memos and position papers, in triplicate (with comments and revisions), that you'll get with ANY governmental organization.
Time to transfer all that stuff from the ridiculously small 20G hard disk that Dell supplied to a studly 120G Maxtor.
But, we wanted to keep the "look and feel" absolutely identical to the original - just with lots and lots of disk space.
Da Boss gives me, in my hot little hand:
1. Maxtor 120G drive.
2. Norton Ghost 9.0.
It's been a while since I fussed with Ghost. So, what should I do? RTFM, that's what.
It turns out that Ghost has an option to clone a drive - from one physical HDD to another.
And, whilst doing my research, I stumbled across THIS PLACE.
What I Tell You Three Times Is True: Go to THIS PLACE. Go to THIS PLACE. Go to THIS PLACE.
You can save yourself a lot of trouble....
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