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    Ghost, recovery disks, and custom partition size

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by fuze44, Aug 3, 2006.

  1. fuze44

    fuze44 Newbie

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    I have an Acer Travelmate C314. It came with 3 recovery disks that contain ghost spanned images. Once the OS is recovered, I find that acer has endowed me with one FAT32 partition. I like my OS/Programs on C: and data on D:

    I would like to be able to use Ghost (of which I have a copy) to work with the spanned images to create custom partitions upon restore. Does anyone know how to do this?

    Thank you.
     
    fuze44, Aug 3, 2006
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    Arla Notebook Deity

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    Yes, should be relatively easy, restore your computer (which gives one drive) great a new ghost image of the partition, then reformat/reparition and restore that new image to the partition you want it on.

    Acer did it's recovery images as DISK recovery images which means when restoring it reverts the entire disk to how it was on the original.
     
    Arla, Aug 3, 2006
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    fuze44 Newbie

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    Thanks, Arla. I was hoping for a way to use the existing images that Acer shipped, but your method would probably save a lot of time.
     
    fuze44, Aug 4, 2006
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    Unfortunately not, the existing images I think are pretty much useless, I'm going with making my own image, however I'm currently trying to make sure I can use Ghost from another drive, got a bootable USB key with Ghost on it (good first step) just need to make sure it works with my firewire external drives, then I have a good backup image on a harddrive... fun fun fun...
     
    Arla, Aug 7, 2006
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