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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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Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
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Tel 336.716.4493 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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