I'm pretty certain that if I had done a
Disk to Disk
copy there would have been NO problem. That's just a CLONE operation and should have gone off without a hitch. Ghost should have in that case paid NO attention to the data or partitioning on the TO drive.
Apparently where I got into trouble was in doing the Disk-Image restore to a lettered drive. It happened to be only a 50gig partition.
Once I removed the partitions, the restore went off exactly as it should....without a hitch.
My hope is that someone else can learn from my BooBoo's.
This was all a controlled exercise and my main drive was never in jeopardy.
And I was under NO pressure as I may have been had my main drive crashed and I was trying to do a recovery.
That can be pretty stressful.
It's always good to try these things out when you're not under any pressure and your critical data is NOT at stake.
When you start playing around with Ghost or any such program, it helps to have an extra hard drive available for testing purposes. I've scrapped out several computers lately and have a number of SATA1 and SATA2 drives available for, whatever testing I may want to do.
One thing that threw me for a loop, for all of about 30 seconds, while I was just playing around with different drives, is that a SATA2 drive cannot be read by a SATA1 motherboard.
The first SATA2 drive I bought would not read on my computer (5 yr. old SATA1 mobo) so I took it back to the store for a replacement. The tech put a little jumper on the back of the drive and handed it back to me, saying "Now it will work". Boy, did I ever feel stupid.
What really hurt, was the 160 mile round trip to take the drive back where I bought it.
It was an OEM drive and not a Retail Boxed Drive so it did not come with the little SATA1 jumper already installed.
The tiny little jumper tells the drive to run at SATA1 (1500MB/sec) speeds which makes it compatible with the older SATA1 (only) motherboards.
Many retail SATA2 drives come out of the box with the little jumper already installed. That drive will only run at SATA1 speed, even on a SATA2 mobo, till the jumper is removed.
I wonder how many people with SATA2 drives, connected to SATA2 motherboards, are only getting half of the performance they should be getting because they didn't know to remove that jumper?
Those little jumpers are only half the size of the old motherboard and drive jumpers that we're all familiar with. You won't fine them at most computer/electronics stores. I found some, 10 for $1, at a computer show so I bought a bag of 10.
I'll sell them for $1 each + S&H to anyone who wants one.
(Just kidding!)
Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?
Shadow