omega Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 My existing hard drive is divided into 2 partitions - C and D. I have a Ghost Image of the C drive which has the operating system on it (Windows 2000Prof). The drive will fail soon - it is making ever-increasing noises! When I install a new hard drive - which will be blank and unformatted - how do I get up and running again? Do I just load the Ghost image onto the new disc and then partition it once I've got an operating system up and running; is disc formatting automatic?Sorry if these questions show the pitiful level of my knowledge - I would use a professional to do all this, but location does not allow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshomaru Samma Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 I'm no expert on Ghost but since you didn't get a reply , I will try:Basically yes , you just load the image on the new disc. By loading I mean using Ghost to restore from image (I forgot the exact term), you can't just copy a Ghost image file. I use a Ghost Cd which is bootable , I believe you will need something like that. I think that it will format it for you as well, but I'm not 100% sure. If you need to format the new disc google for Gparted live disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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