Forgive me, I'm gonna fumble a little with this.  I know what the problem
is, I just don't know the exact reasons why.  I'll try to explain as best I
know, though.

We ran into the same problem where I work.  We were using an image (Ghost)
that was created on an 8GB drive.  Up to (I thing) Ghost 5.2 there wer a
very limited number of 8GB+ drives, so the software was not written to
support these large drives.  What happened was we had a 22GB drive that we
ghosted with a 540MB image created from an 8GB drive.  Well, Ghost
partitioned the new drive into one 8GB partition, and nothing, repeat
NOTHING we tried would recover the other 14GB of space.  As a matter of
fact, Fdisk'ing the entire drive and rebuilding the system from scratch
would not even work.  We had to use Gdisk and then start over again.

I believe that this is what you are running into.  We had it happen a couple
of times before we nailed down the problem.  I am not sure of subsequent
versions of Ghost correct this as we gave up trying to image these drives.

As far as I know, once a partition is created it does not need to be
formatted for Windows (or even DOS) to recognize it.  I think your problem
goes deeper, and I don't believe there is a way you are going to able to
image this with Ghost.  I would suggest using a more up-to-date imager, or
just building the system from scratch.  Hope this helps.

Kyle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A. Shippert" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Partition Question


> Greetings, Jim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Cook" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> I have just upgraded my hard drive from 10 GB to 27 GB.  I am running
> Windows 98. The partitions were FAT 32. The 10 GB hard drive had 2
> partitions with the extended partition divided with drive letters D and E.
> I did not partition the new drive and transfered all my data from the old
> drive to the new using Norton Ghost.  The transfer went ok but when I
> connected the new drive I had just 2 drive letters C and D.  I ran FDISK
and
> divided my extended partition into 2 drives D and E like I did on the old
> drive.  FDISK reports everything correctly.  Now when I start Windows I
only
> have drive letters C and D.  There is no E.  Windows reports the capicity
of
> drive D correctly the same way I split it in FDISK. FDISK shows all drives
> as FAT 32 also.  What did I miss ?
>
> ------------End original
> message---------------------------------------------------------
> Did you format the newly created logical drive E:? This is also necessary.
>
> Paul A. Shippert               Library/Media Specialist
>

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