how to ghost NTSC outside of windows, help please

[mhenley]

Simple situation. I have a side system with a 10 gig drive NTFS running win2k. I want to clone that drive onto a 40g unpartioned drive.

back in the day of fat32 (sounds like so long ago) i had Norton Ghost on a floppy disk, and it worked great...but I must admit, I've never cloned a NTFS drive before.

obviously, I'm probably going to need to format this thing before I do the copy, but what program to use? I would preffer to stay outside of windows, but if I have to do it in windows, I will...I have another side system where I can put all 3 hard drives in (windows, with copy program, source drive, destination drive)

i'll shut up and hope somebody has a good suggestion.

(edited for stupid typo)

[sigmend]

NTSC
:confused:
NTFS?

[mhenley]

*smacks self*...yes, NTFS, sorry. I have no explanation why I was thinking of a television format acronym.

[Ice Czar]

ghost has always been able to clone NTFS
it was just that previous to v2003 it couldnt save an image to a NTFS partition, it could image such a partition, but had to save the image to a FAT32 partition, as far as cloning went no problems in any version

Ghost Guide (http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1.htm)

you dont need to format the new HDD, just partition it with FDisk (http://fdisk.radified.com/), any cloned partition overwrites whatever is there, including the filesystem

if you insist there are lots of cool toy on the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)