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1. #GHOST 32 IMAGE DOESNT WORK WITH HDD OF THE SAME SIZE INSTALL#
2. #GHOST 32 IMAGE DOESNT WORK WITH HDD OF THE SAME SIZE WINDOWS 7#

it will ask for your permission again to start the job. once you confirm that, you can go ahead with the cloning.(this requires that you know your old HDD partitions sizes beforehand and their empty spaces, so do your homework before). they should be, but just double check to be sure. Ghost loads its GUI and asks you to confirm that the partition sizes are correct.so DiskPart disk 0 is mapped to Ghost disk 1 and DiskPart disk 1 is mapped to Ghost disk 2. NOTE: Ghost counts disks starting from 1 whereas DiskPart counts them starting from 0. run Ghost in clone mode by typing the following at the command prompt and press enterĬlick to expand.this command tells Ghost to clone from the source (Disk 2) to destination (Disk 1) and image the entire boot track (-ib switch) while making all the destination partitions the same size as their respective source ones except the last one which should occupy the rest of the disk (szeL option).and F: is the only partition on the USB stick connected to the second USB port. in my case it was F:, since C: (Recovery partition) and D: (System Reserved partition) and E: (main partition with the OS and data) were the three partitions on the HDD connected to the first USB port. to exit to the command prompt, just type EXIT. type DiskPart.exe at the command prompt, and when if loads, type LIST DISK. you can run DiskPart to confirm that the SSD is now recognized as Disk 0 and the HDD is Disk 1.when the System Recovery Options opens, click on "Command Prompt".do not repair anything, but deselect the currently selected drive and click on "Next".

#GHOST 32 IMAGE DOESNT WORK WITH HDD OF THE SAME SIZE WINDOWS 7#

#GHOST 32 IMAGE DOESNT WORK WITH HDD OF THE SAME SIZE INSTALL#

at the Vista install screen, select "Repair your computer".you need Vista disc and not 7 disc, since Microsoft has stripped the Windows 7 installation DVD from its pre-boot environment, so you cannot run external programs. put a Windows Vista installation DVD in the optical drive and boot the laptop with it.put Symantec Ghost (that is Ghost32.exe) on a USB stick and plug it into the second USB 2.0 port.plug the USB enclosure into the first USB 2.0 port.instal the SSD in the laptop and put the HDD in a USB enclosure.of course, i could put Ghost on the HDD to begin with (in which case only one USB port would have been needed), but i didn't want to take any chances. i used the two USB ports on my laptop to connect the old HDD in a USB enclosure and to connect a USB stick which contained Symantec Ghost.

Here are the steps i used to clone my HDD to the new SSD using Symantec Ghost 11.5.