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When I have a case where I want the system partition to be bigger than 4GB,
I install a basic NT 4.0 + SP6 (I think > SP4 will suffice) then use Ghost
PE (came with Norton SystemWorks Pro) to ghost this small install to Zip
disks then back to the machine, selecting whatever size system partition I
want. The downside to this is that the NT bootdisks and repair stuff may not
work anymore.
Assuming Ghost handles NTFS compression, I think you can do the same thing
but faster as you will be going from old disk to new disk. After duplicating
your old partition onto the new disk just make the new disk the booting
drive and you should be set.
If you don't want to buy Ghost, then go to the Norton website and get the
demo.
jbh
John Hanks
System Administrator
Dept. of Biology
Utah State University
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Roth [mailto:tomroth@wfubmc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 2:48 PM
> To: winmac@lists.best.com
> Subject: [WinMac] upgrading NT boot disk
>
>
>
> I've got an NT workstation at home with a mere 1GB IDE hard drive.
> Available disk space is not too bad but only because I've set NT to
> compress the data on this disk, otherwise I'd probably be out of space
> by now. I'm guessing that setting the disk to be compressed by NT
> causes the system to access the disk slower?
>
> If the above is true, what's the easiest way to upgrade to a
> larger disk
> without having to reinstall everything? I know you can't just select
> all and copy to the new hard drive.
>
> If it matters, I've got a fast and wide scsi card with BIOS already
> installed in this computer so the upgraded hard drive would
> likely be SCSI.
>
>
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