I have a 70 gb hard drive with 30 gb space used on it.
I have added a secondary hard drive, it is 200 gb.
I've partitioned the drive into 50gb and 140gb (approx).
I would like to clone my original operating system and all my files to
the 50gb partition and then remove the original drive.
I have tried using Acronis True Image 9.0 but it will only perform the
image if it can remove the partition.
So I tried norton Ghost v10.0 it said it can't be done using the
windows environment and to boot to the recovery cd.
When I boot to the recovery cd, there are many options but none to
make a copy of my hard drive.
I have also tried Maxtors utility for this and it looked like every
thing was fine and everything appeared to copy to the new partition
but when I removed the old drive and set the new drive as master it
would not boot.
The bios detects the new drive.
Windows detects the new drive and partitions when it is slaved.
Am I missing something?
Do I have the right software to do this?
Is there anywhere on the web to give me a complete walkthrough on this procedure?

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 25 May 2006 13:37 PDT

fishyfinger...

I think the problem you're having stems from trying to clone a 70GB
partition (even though only 30GB is used) to a 50GB partition. The 
programs you've mentioned don't like to play that way. One option
is to defrag your 70GB drive so the files are as contiguous as 
possible and then create a second partition, reducing the original
to 50GB and adding one of 20GB. A simpler option is to partition the
new drive into 70GB and 120GB, making the target partition slightly
larger than the one you want to clone. 

I haven't tried it out yet, but Casper XP clone (works on WIN2K, too)
might be able to do what you want without resizing the partitions. 
The features page is here:
http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/features.aspx

Let me know where this takes you...

sublime1-ga

"I have also tried Maxtors utility for this and it looked like every
thing was fine and everything appeared to copy to the new partition
but when I removed the old drive and set the new drive as master it
would not boot.
The bios detects the new drive.
Windows detects the new drive and partitions when it is slaved."

If you can see the data on the drive while it is slaved, the copy was
successful. However, most partition copying programs will not give the
new drive an MBR (Master Boot Record), nor set the partition as
active.

If you are using Windows XP, I would suggest trying to set the drive
as master, then boot your Windows XP CD, and go into the recovery
console (NOT Automated System Recovery that appears before it loads
drivers). Once in the recovery console, try the following commands:

fixboot C:
fixmbr C:

Hope this helps. ^.^

sublime1-ga

This is what I would do if I were you.

(1) Gather two blank diskettes & Format them (quick format will do)
(2) On Diskette number 1, copy Symantec Ghost  (ghost.exe) to this diskette
(3) ON Diskette number 2, set this diskette as a boot disk
      You can obtain a boot disk at 
      http://ephemeral-designs.com/downloads/boot98c.exe
      Download this file and runit.. it'll create you a boot disk

Now that you have 1 boot disk and 1 disk for Ghost, power down your pc
Make sure that your two hard drives are connected and are being detected
Put Boot disk in your drive and allow the system to boot up
Once at a A:\>  Screen (command prompt), remove the disk and put in
your ghost.exe disk
At the command prompt, type   GHOST.EXE    and press [enter]

User your arrow keys to select  CLONE   Disk to partition
Disk Selection will be DISK 0        Destination will be  DISK 1 - Partition 1
These selections will show you the drive / partition sizes to ensure
you are doing things properly.

Once done, you should be able to remove the first drive, setup your
second drive as a primary master (recommended), reboot the system and
that should take care of things.   In the case of a boot failure, you
may have to enter your cmos (pressing DEL at startup) and re-detect
your drives.

Itch

As a second comment, if the first procedure does not work... by using
the regular boot disk, you should be able to re-initialize the master
boot record

fdisk/mbr

Cheers
Itch