Diane, what you want to do is easy if you use True Image 7 from Acronis or preferably, if you can still find a copy, Migrate Easy 6 from Acronis. 

Both progs will allow you to clone an 80gb drive to a 20gb drive, as long as the 80gb drive holds no more than 20gb of data, which you say is the situation with yours.

You don't even need to format the 20gb drive, if it's a new one.

Ian Porter
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 3:30 PM
  Subject: [PCSOFT] Hard Drive Size


  I seem to have messed up my HD by using Ghost.  When I try to use Ghost
  or XXcopy it says my HD isn't big enough.  This HD is 20GB, but I'm being
  told it's much smaller and too small to even put a DOS partition on.

  I've tried to reformat it, but in Windows I'm being told it's in use and
  I can't seem to get to that drive in DOS.  When I look at it in Windows
  it says it's 20GB.

  Do I need to delete everything on that drive first?  But that doesn't
  make sense.

  I need to get this drive to again read 20GB so I can clone to it.  I'm
  cloning from an 80GB HD that is only 12GB used.

  Thanks.

  Diane Kroeckel

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