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by angler1

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I have a Compaq Prolinea 200 with two SCSI drives in it. The bootable drive is a 4 gig and the second drive is an 18 gig. They are both on the same controller. There is also no available drive bays left in the machine since I have a tape drive, floppy and cdrom as well. I want to replace the 4 gig bootable drive that has the system partition on it with a 36 gig SCSI drive. Then I want to put the original second drive on it's own controller and create a mirror set of the original second drive ( currently all one partition) with the free space on the 36 gig. My question is this: Can I put the 36 gig drive on the same cable as the other two drives and use Nortons Ghost to transfer the bootable drives image to the new 36 gig drive?
Thanks for any help!!

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by lizzy

I don't know that you can put the 36GB drive on the same cable with the other two drives--you will probably have to remove at least one of the first two drives. Also, the new drive will have to have a compatible connector.

I do know that you should be able to image the new drive with the image from the smallest drive and still have all the extra space available. Make sure to enable large disk support when creating the image. You will need to create the image to another partition or drive from the boot drive you're imaging. You could perhaps put it on the 18GB drive and span or split it so that you can burn it to CD or create it directly to CD if you have the latest version of Ghost which is capable of this. You could even remove the bootable drive that you want to image to another PC that has Ghost and a CD-R to create the image file(s). I usually create images of the files using high compression, I don't usually image the free space. When you image the new drive, select allthe space on it to have the new image and any leftover space will be free space.

HTH.

by lukemc

You can have up to 16 SCSI devices on the one SCSI bus (15+SCSI controller).
My advice to you is add the 36GB drive on the same SCSI bus, use NT disk administrator to establish a mirrored pair between the 4Gb and the 36GB. Once the mirror has initialised, change the "scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)" arc path in the boot.ini to refer to the new drive to boot and reboot the server.
The 36GB will now be your system partition. You can then use your 4GB drive for all your MP3's :).
Good luck.

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