cloning dual boot drive

[runLoganrun]

I tried doing this with Norton Ghost, have been unsuccessful thus far though. I have one vista partition and one xp partition. The way I did it was to format and partition the destination drive the way I wanted and then copy each partition separately. Haven't been able to get the destination to boot, It just copies the files over. Can anyone help with this?

thx,
rlr

 

[thebeephaha]

I suggest clone the drive as is with Ghost and resize the partitions later using Acronis or something.

 

[runLoganrun]

I suggest clone the drive as is with Ghost and resize the partitions later using Acronis or something.

How do you mean clone "as is". Do you do that from the copy function?

 

[thebeephaha]

So clone the partitions first like they are, don't try and have the programs resize them during the cloning process. Clone them perfectly "as-is" then if that works resize them afterwards to use all the space of the newer drive.

 

[tgrimley]

Acronis supports a clone with a resize.. could do it all in one go.

 

[runLoganrun]

So clone the partitions first like they are, don't try and have the programs resize them during the cloning process. Clone them perfectly "as-is" then if that works resize them afterwards to use all the space of the newer drive.

so I'm not partitioning the destination drive, just format?