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Repartitioned my 74 gig raptor into a single partition, used to be 2 partitions, one 20 gigs the other rest of space. I own Ghost 14.0 and tried recovering my operating system files onto the new partition but it tells me the "drive is invalid".
I'm using winxp, my backup files are kept on a separate harddrive. Is there any way I can fool Ghost into accepting the new drive size?
 
No, you can't fool it. The drive partitions must literally be the EXACT same, otherwise the image will not work.

Unless you use an imaging tool or utility that does not care what size the HDD is, you have to have the same drive and partition(s) as when you created the image.
 
Clonezilla is free, and it will restore and image to any drive larger than the original.
 
my guess is - No.
I think you can use the Ghost-image in a virtual machine, pretty sure you need 74GB for it though.
 
yea you can probably create a properly sized partition on a virtual drive, install your ghost backup, and then copy or re-image the virtual drive on to the one you want.
 
Red Falcon said:
No, you can't fool it. The drive partitions must literally be the EXACT same, otherwise the image will not work.

Unless you use an imaging tool or utility that does not care what size the HDD is, you have to have the same drive and partition(s) as when you created the image.
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Really? I used to use Ghost all the time for imaging and as long as the data in the image would fit on the new partition it would let me restore it. This was with Ghost 8 though.

When did they totally screw it up if what you are claiming is true?
 
TBJ said:
Repartitioned my 74 gig raptor into a single partition, used to be 2 partitions, one 20 gigs the other rest of space. I own Ghost 14.0 and tried recovering my operating system files onto the new partition but it tells me the "drive is invalid".
I'm using winxp, my backup files are kept on a separate harddrive. Is there any way I can fool Ghost into accepting the new drive size?
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Did you format the drive before you tried restoring the old data? If not, format it and try again.

What did you use to repartition it?

It really should just work unless Ghost has gone way downhill since version 8.
 
I used the winxp home edition cd to redo the partition and format ntfs. I used Ghost to erase the old partitions.
 
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It should just work then... are you selecting the option to retore the partition or the one to restore the drive?

Are you booting from a CD or DVD and using ghost that way or are you using it from within windows?

Can you post a screen shot of where it gives you the error?
 
Decided to use Ghost exclusively instead of formatting with windows xp, will let you know what happens.
 
Are you hitting restore drive or restore partition? You have to use the restore drive function (partition is used for storing a complete HDD on a single partition)
 
I think you may be able to restore it with Ghost exactly the way it was before, then use Partition Magic to merge the partitions into one.
 
cyclone3d said:
Really? I used to use Ghost all the time for imaging and as long as the data in the image would fit on the new partition it would let me restore it. This was with Ghost 8 though.

When did they totally screw it up if what you are claiming is true?
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Since Ghost 9.0, when they acquired powerquest. I've never been able to get an image to work if it is using a different HDD or partition size different from the original, at least with Windows. OS X and Linux distros don't seem to have this problem natively.
 
My bad, really bad. I used the special utilities the manual will tell you not to use to delete the partition without backing up the MBR, boot.ini or partition information (harddrive info you get from the bios usually).
I figure this is why it wouldn't work for me, because now my partition information is totally different from the original image.

I just started from scratch...again. Lesson learned.
 
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