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    Cloning 9300 hard drive

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by hln98, Aug 4, 2005.

  1. hln98

    hln98 Notebook Geek

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    I am in the process of upgrading my HD to 7200 rpm and would like some opinions on making a exact duplicate of my existing HD.

    Here is my problem: I have Norton Ghost and could technically create another partition on my existing HD for storing the clone images, but as soon as I do that, I max out the number of primary partition (4 is max) and Ghost will not work because Ghost needs one free primary partition to run.

    The problem is because Dell has a hidden partition for the restore stuffs that takes up a primary partition. I know I can delete the Dell partition but really like to keep that around in case.

    Any ideas? Thanks.
     
    hln98, Aug 4, 2005
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