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Sinbad
Here's the deal.. I've got Win2k Server installed on a 8GB hdd. Only about 1.6GB is actually used. I need to clone that 1.6GB of data to a 4GB drive, so I can use the 8GB for something else.

I suppose I could aquire Norton Ghost or similar, but that seems like overkill for this. Just need a basic little utility for this.

Thanks. smile.gif
Nightwind Hawk
Hm, my brother used a DOS appication to copy my harddrive once, I'll see if I can find it.
quantumAlpha
clone it or repartition it?
Nero has DriveImage which can take a kind of ISO of a HDD
virtualraider
Check the hard drive manufacturer, they will have a utility to do this.
Sinbad
I just used Acronis True Image trial, worked fine.
merslain
i really like G4U its a Free/BSD thing..it works vvery very well..evne takes Fedora COre 3 which ghost has issues with..biascally you just have an FTP server on the Server, and boot this G4U disk on whatever comp you wanna image..it gzips the entire thing, andy ou are done..pretty good, i warn if you need to ghost LOTS of computers at once it can take awhile depending on how fast your network is....
Sinbad
QUOTE(merslain @ Jun 21 2005, 17:28)
i really like G4U its a Free/BSD thing..it works vvery very well..evne takes Fedora COre 3 which ghost has issues with..biascally you just have an FTP server on the Server, and boot this G4U disk on whatever comp you wanna image..it gzips the entire thing, andy ou are done..pretty good, i warn if you need to ghost LOTS of computers at once it can take awhile depending on how fast your network is....
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I tried that. But unfortunately, the computer I was trying to image WAS my server. ermm.gif

It's all taken care of though, via Acronis True Image "Drive Clone".
rjz
The ultimate boot cd has several utilities to do this. Do you want to try it?
Taco Bell
@rjz: It's a done deal at this point, so I doubt it. Problem solved.
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