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    Cloning different size hard drives

    I have norton ghost 2001 and I want to use it to copy the 3.5 gigs of information I have on a 10 gig hard drive to a 6.4 gig hard drive...How can I do this? The last time I attempted somthing like this I could not do it because I believe it wanted the destination drive to be at least as big as the source drive. Is there a way around this..
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    You could use ghost to do a partition to disk copy. If the two hard drives are of the same manufacturer you could use their hard disk utility that usually comes with the new hard drive. You can also download the utilities.

    HERE ARE SOME LINKS TO THE HARD DRIVE UTILITIES
    Seagate
    Maxtor
    Quantum
    Western Digital
    IBM
    Samsung

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    Ghost will allow you to copy from a larger to a smaller drive, as long as there is enough room for all the files on the new drive. It may warn you about the size diffence, but...

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