Using Norton Ghost 2001 to copy HD

From Symantec's knowledge base:
Situation:
You cloned a disk or partition to another disk, or you created and restored an image. The partition sizes on the destination disk are different from the partition sizes on the source disk. You want to know how to ensure that the partition sizes on the destination disk are the same as the partition sizes on the source disk.

Solution:
When Ghost performs a disk clone, or restores a disk image, it resizes all partitions based on their data space requirements in relation to the free space on the destination drive. Because of the resizing, an image created from a hard drive and then restored to the same hard drive, may have different sized partitions than the original source.

To prevent Ghost from automatically resizing the partition, use the SZE switch as follows:

When the source and destination drives are the same size
If you have two drives of the same size, use the following switch to keep the partitions from being resized:

Use the SZEE switch in the -CLONE statement. For example:

GHOST.EXE -CLONE,MODE=LOAD,SRC=G:\2PRTDISK.GHO,DST=2,SZEE

In Ghost 6.01 and earlier, this switch instructs Ghost to resize only the last partition in the image. Because the two drives are of the same size, all partitions will remain the same size as the source.

In Ghost 6.5, this switch instructs Ghost to not resize any partitions. All partitions remain the same size as the source.

When the destination drive is larger than the source drive
If the destination drive is larger than the source, then use the following switch to keep the partitions from being resized:

Use the SZEx=F switch in the -CLONE statement, where x represents the partition number. For instance, SZE1=F tells Ghost to keep the first partition a fixed size. You can use multiple SZEx=F switches to indicate multiple partitions that Ghost should keep a fixed size. For example:

GHOST -CLONE,MODE=LOAD,SRC=G:\2PRTDISK.GHO,DST=2,SZE1=F,SZE2=F

This switch will leave any extra space as unallocated at the end of the larger drive. This can also be used with two drives of the same size.

I have tried that but what happens is it does not work.

This is the switches I use

ghostpe -clone,mode=copy,src=d:\,dst=1:1,sze1=50P,sze2:50P

I get an error
I don't know what to make of it
Maybe there is something wrong with the switch.
I am using the right switch.

I have the D drive with the data I want to copy to C drive.  C drive is the larger of the two.  I want to have the data from D copied to the 1st partition on D drive.

Also I want to have Drive D into 2 equal partitions.

I thought with the switches above I could do that, but I cannot.
I am missing something?

I used this switch to copy the data:

ghostpe -clone,mode=copy,src=1,dst=3:1,sze1=50P,sze2=50P

That went fine.  But when I went to boot from that drive, the %systemroot% lost its read permission so I was unable to get to the desktop after login

So I had no choice but to restore from CD's which I had made.

I used this switch;

ghostpe -clone,mode=load,src=D:\cdr00001,sze1=50%,sze2=50%

This worked ot fine.  I was able to reboot and login fine.  And the partitioning was correct :)!

tituba2 I believe you it reverse.  I wanted the opposite.  The destination disk is a larger size and I want to copy my data from source to the destination disk.  But when the copying is done I want the larger sizes of the destination disk to be registered.

So I took phungus69 and copied the data to the destinationand after using the selected switch I was able to do that and the larger disk size noted.

As I've said many times, GHOST AND DRIVE IMAGE DON'T WORK PERIOD!

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