Ok heres the deal. I have a machine with about 300 GB of data that needs to be copied onto another machine. The machine with the data has 6 60GB HDDs formated ntfs. The machine that will be getting the data has 4 100GB drives and will need to be Fat 32. My plan was to image the first drive using ghost than use xcopy to copy the first 40GB of the 2nd HDD.......this leads me to my questions:

1. Imaging the first drive shouldnt be a prob. My plan was to ghost the drive onto the 100GB drive than use partition magic to exten the partition to the end and convert to fat32. After that I need to get the next 40 GB off of the 2nd HDD. Can I use xcopy to only copy a range of files? Also can I copy them to a fat32 drive even though they are in ntfs format?

2. After copying the first 40 GB that will leave me with 20 left on that 2nd drive and then I will have to copy the whole 60 GB from the third. Can I use ghost to copy an image and not erase data that I hve already copied over or would I need to image the drive and then go back and copy the 20 GB?


Sorry it is so long but I dont have alot of experience with imaging software and partioning software.


Thanks

Tom

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If I understand what you're trying to do. Why not ghost all the HDDs to image files on one of the extra 100GB disks. Then, from an operating system that recognizes FAT32 -Win98, WinMe, 2000 etc., use Ghost Explorer, which comes with Ghost. It is similar to Windows Explorer, but it enables you to delete, copy, move, etc. files from the image file and onto other drives.

Of course, if you have the hardware/software resources, like a Win2K machine that you can hook each of the HDD drives from which you need data as a secondary drive. Then move the data over to a Fat32 partition.

If you're needing to use the system files however from the first drive I don't think you'll have much choice but to Ghost disk to disk for the first drive.

Check out Symantec's knowledgebase as well. It's got some good info. http://www.symantec.com. For instance, you can Ghost disk to disk, through a TCP/IP connection via crossover cable on two PCs, via a USB host-to-host cable (about $50 more bucks to order, and not worth it if you can make a crossover quicker, cheaper, and easier), or via parallel connection (very slow).

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The option for moving the data to each secondary drive may be an option but will it matter the the data is on a ntfs partion right now and would be moved to a fat32 partion?

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As far as I know it shouldn't as long as the computer using the data on the network later have an OS that can read FAT32. After you create an image file of the drive you will likely need to use W2K or XP to see the ghost image file on either a FAT32 or NTFS partition. Then use Ghost Explorer to extract the data files you need and copy them to the server via the network. Otherwise you're going to need to have two computers on the network, one Win98 or Me, and another NT to be able to read the secondary drive depending upon the file system.

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