[westcparts]

trying to clone C drive to a new seagate ST130013A 80 gig, but Ghost 9.0 can not complete
because the disk is not allocated completely. it appears that the wizard for seagate installation
and/or XP PRO leave a 7MB unallocated area on the new disk. I used Ghost 2003 and had no problems
cloning a disk in win98se.

cannot copy source drive to dest drive location
ERROR EA3905FE cluster not allocated 0xEA390FE

Thanks
Michael

Edited by westcparts, 17 January 2006 - 02:51 PM.

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Why did you partition/format the destination disk at all? When ghosting, you need not do that. Remove the partitions from the destination disk and try again...does the problem repeat?

[gerryf]

Why did you partition/format the destination disk at all? When ghosting, you need not do that. Remove the partitions from the destination disk and try again...does the problem repeat?

[westcparts]

Thanks Gerryf

I didn't intentionally, when we ran the seagate format wizard, we must have made an error
how do i get the unallocated partition off the drive and get it to a single partition

Thanks Michael

[gerryf]

Delete the partition, don't try to fart around with the remaining space. I do not think it is affecting this issue.

The extra space left by partitioning programs when you set up an ntfs partition is there for a purpose. I was not aware that seagate would do it, but Windows XP leaves the space for use if you later decide to create dynamic disks

[westcparts]

What or how would you suggest to delete the unallocated area?

Thanks
Michael