Re: [WinMac] upgrading NT boot disk

From: Tom Roth (tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 17:48:59 PST

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    John Hanks wrote:
    >
    > 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.

    That sounds a little risky.

    > 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.

    Well now that'd be worth trying.

    > If you don't want to buy Ghost, then go to the Norton website and get the
    > demo.

    Hey, even better. After all if this works I really only need to use it
    once. I think I'll go take a look at that right now.

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