>Hello people,
>
>Situation:
>Had VPC6 running Win2000Pro, albeit slowly.
>Got VPC7 upgrade because of promised speed increases.
>Installing VPC7.0.1 went just fine.
>
>Background Problem to Solve:
>Found that boot drive had about 23MB free, and would not expand beyone
>2GB. After a bunch of experiments and reading, discovered that there was
>no easy way to expand its maximum size. Discovered that I needed Ghost.
>Got a copy of Ghost.
>Used Ghost to make a virtual Ghostwizard boot floppy disk (actually, it
>is 2 diskette images, a boot diskette and a diskette containing the
>Ghost executable). The boot diskette is a PC-DOS diskette.
>Made a new FAT32 expanding disk.
>Turned off the undo disks feature.
>Made the old boot disk Disk 3
>Made the new empty FAT32 disk Disk 1
>(Left the old applications disk as Disk 2)
>Started the virtual machine.
>Paused the machine immediately.
>Captured the Ghost boot diskette.
>Booted and then ejected.
>Captured the Ghost application diskette.
>Ran Ghost.
>Set the settings to be sure that the resulting clone would be FAT32.
>Copied the old boot image onto the new boot image.
>Shut down the virtual machine.
>Moved the new boot disk to Disk 1 in VPC.
>Unattached the old boot disk from the virtual machine.
>
>The Resulting Headache:
>Tried to start...
>The beautiful black screen with Starting Windows... came up.
>The Starting Windows 2000 Professional (based on NT Technology) screen
>came up.
>Just as things looked good, a BSOD flashed up and was immediately gone
>and the virtual machine was no longer running.
>After many attempts and restarts, I finally could get a screen capture
>of the BSOD before it disappeared, and it stated that I had "an
>inaccessible_boot_device" (which seemed odd to me, since it had booted
>OK, it just hadn't loaded Win2000 properly).
>Of course, the help messages afterwards (blaming virii) were worthless.
>
>Things which seem odd, and which are reproducible:
>Ghost seems to think that there are only 1.2GB worth of files to copy
>off the nearly full 2GB disk.
>
>What am I doing wrong?

> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:31:21 -0500, Bill Rising
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> Ghost duplicates a disk image. If you're disk image is FAT16,
> Ghosting it to a FAT32 disk image does nothing. Ghost will overwrite
> whatever's on the existing drive (partitioning included).
>
> FAT16 is limited to 2GB. If you want to increase your disk size, your
> best bet is to convert your existing disk image to NTFS or FAT32,
>then make a Ghost image of it, then duplicate it to a larger image.
> If it
> works correctly, Ghost will give you a message asking if you want to
> expand to the maximum partition size.
>
> If Ghost can't do this, you'll probably need a utility like Partition
> Magic that can expand existing partitions.

>In article <(email address - cut out)>,
> Steve Jain <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:31:21 -0500, Bill Rising
>> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>>
>[snip...]
>
>> Ghost duplicates a disk image. If you're disk image is FAT16,
>> Ghosting it to a FAT32 disk image does nothing. Ghost will overwrite
>> whatever's on the existing drive (partitioning included).
>
>According to the ghost documentation, using the -f32 flag when ghosting
>(which I did) converts fat16 to fat32:
>
>http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1999010409444425
>
>documentation: -f32 "Lets Symantec Ghost convert all FAT16 volumes to
>FAT32 volumes when the destination partition to convert is larger than
>256 MB in size. Ensure that the installed operating systems can access
>the volumes that will be converted to support FAT32."
>
>
>http://www.petri.co.il/convert_fat16_to_fat32_in_windows_2000_xp_2003.htm
>
>Unfortunately, I have a nagging suspicion that I'll need to use some
>sort of DOS application at some point, which would mean I need FAT32.
>So, once again, I'm SOL because of missing tools.
>>
>> If Ghost can't do this, you'll probably need a utility like Partition
>> Magic that can expand existing partitions.
>
>I sure hope I don't need yet another application. I'm once again being
>underwhelmed by MS Windows...