Required items
Ghost 2003 Build 2003.775 (Be sure not to allow patching of this software) 2 X Hard Drives (OS must be installed on both.) For sake of clarity we will call the drive we are trying to expand (T) in this document (means Target for partition recover). The drive you use every day, I assume you have one that you want to keep as mater with your current OS and data, will be the last dive we install in this process and will be called (X) as it is your original drive.
REQUERIMIENTOS:
Ghost 2003 Build 2003.775 (no lo parchees... no se q querra decir... sera por lo de la "medicina"?)
2x discos duros con un SO instalado en ambos
llaman T al HD q intentan expandir, y X al q usas normalmente y en el q guardas todos tus datos
1. Install the HDD you wish to recover the hidden partitions (hard drive T) on as the master drive in your system with a second drive as a slave (you can use Hard Drive X if you want to). Any drive will do as a slave since we will not be writing data to it. However, Ghost must see a second drive in order to complete the following steps. Also, be sure hard drive T has an OS installed on it You must ensure that the file system type is the same on both drive (NTFS to NTFS or FAT32 to FAT32, etc)
PASO 1:
instala el disco duro en q que quieres recuperar las particiones perdidas estas como MASTER, y el X (el de los datos) como SLAVE, ambos deben tener el mismo tipo de formato (NTFS, FAT, FAT32...)
2. Install Ghost 2003 build 2003.775 to hard drive T with standard settings. Reboot if required.
PASO 2:
instala el ghost blablabla...con la configuracion standard y reinicia si lo necesita
3. Open Ghost and select Ghost Basic. Select Backup from the shown list of options. Select C:\ (this is the drive we want to free partition on on hard drive T) as our source for the backup. Select our second drive as the target. (no data will be written so worry not). Use any name when requested as it will not matter. Press OK, Continue, or Next until you are asked to reboot.
PASO 3:
abre el ghost, y selecciona ghost basic, luego backup, seleciona C:\ (o el q corresponda al disco duro T del q hemos hablado). Selecciona el segundo disco duro como TARGET (en los HD slave parece q no se puede escribir, asi q no te preocupes) USa cualquier nombre para el proceso, pulsa OK, continue or next hasta q termines, reinicia si lo pide
Critical step
- Once reboot begins, you must shutdown the PC prior to the loading of DOS or any drivers. The best method is to power down the PC manually the moment you see the BIOS load and your HDDs show as detected.
PASO 4 y parece q el jodido...
despues de reiniciar, tienes que apagar el pc antes de cargar DOS o cualquier driver, el mejor metodo es apagar el pc manualmente en el momento en que ves q carga la bios y los HDDs son detectados
5. Now that you have shutdown prior to allowing Ghost to do its backup, you must remove the HDD we are attempting to expand (hard drive T which we had installed as master) and replace it with a drive that has an OS installed on it. (This is where having hard drive X is useful. You can use your old hard drive to complete the process.) Place hard drive T as a secondary drive in the system. Hard drive X should now be the master and you should be able to boot into the OS on it. The best method for this assuming you need to keep data from and old drive is:
Once you boot into the OS, you will see that the second drive in the system is the one we are attempting to expand (hard drive T). Go to Computer Management -> Disk Management
You should see an 8 meg partition labeled VPSGHBOOT or similar on the slave HDD (hard drive T) along with a large section of unallocated space that did not show before. DO NOT DELETE VPSGHBOOT yet.
PASO 5:
ahora que has apagado el pc, permitiendo al ghost hacer un backup (no se como funcionara el ghost, y esto me suena raro, a lo mejor he traducido mal) tiens q quitar el HDD que estabas intentando expandir (el T) y sustituirlo por el X, coloca el T como secundario. El disco duro X aparecera ahora como master y podras botear desde este SO. El mejor metodo "for this assuming" (no se traducirlo bien, xo la frase se puede entender... XD) necesitaras conservar los datos de un disco duro antigo, hazlo asi:
una vez que has boteado en el SO, veras que el HDD T aparece como secundario, ve a computer management [panel de control?] y luego a DISK MANEGEMENT
podras ver una particion de 8MB nombrada como VPSGHBOOT o parecido en el disco duro T, jungo a una seccion unallocated q no aparecia anteriormente, NO BORRES VPSGHBOOT todavia!
6. Select the unallocated space on our drive T and create a new primary or extended partition. Select the file system type you prefer and format with quick format (if available). Once formatting completes, you can delete the VPSGHBOOT partition from the drive.
PASO 6:
selecciona la parte de unallocated space del disco duro T y crea una nueva particion primaria o extendida, selecciona el tipo de archivo de sistema q prefieras (ein? XD) y formatea por medio del formato rapido (si se puede). cuando termine, podras borrar VPSGHBOOT del HD
7. Here is what you should now see on your T drive.
a. Original partition from when the drive still had hidden partitions
b. New partition of space we just recovered.
c. 8 meg unallocated partitions.
PASO 7:
estpo es lo q veras ahora en el disco duro T:
a. particion original que habia antes de sacar la particion oculta
b. una nueva particion que acabas de recuperar
c. 8 MB unallocated partitions
8. Do you want to place drive T back in a PC and run it as the primary HDD? Go to Disk Management and set the original partition on T (not the new one we just formatted) to and Active Partition. It should be bootable again if no data corruption has occurred.
PASO 8:
quieres colocar T como HD primario? ve a DISK MANAGEMENT y selecciona la particion original q tenias en T (no la q acabas de formatear) y configurala como particion activa. Podras botear siempre que no se haya producido una corrupcion de los datos
Caution
Do not try to delete both partitions on the drive so you can create one large partition. This will not work. You have to leave the two partitions separate in order to use them. Windows disk management will have erroneous data in that it will say drive size = manus stated drive size and then available size will equal ALL the available space with recovered partitions included.
This process can cause a loss of data on the drive that is having its partitions recovered so it is best to make sure the HDD you use is not your current working HDD that has important data. If you do this on your everyday drive and not a new drive with just junk on it, you do so at your own risk. It has worked completely fine with no loss before and it has also lost the data on the drive before. Since the idea is to yield a huge storage drive, it should not matter.
PRECAUCION: (momento de acojone... )
no intentes borrar ambas particiones para hacer una mas grande con las dos, no te va a tirar, tienes q mantener las dos particiones separadas para que tire. Windows DISK MANAGEMENT tendra datos corruptos XXXXXXXX (q no me entero ni del nodo) igual a todo el espacio recuperado con las particiones incluidas (pierde todo el sentido sin el trozo ese)
este proceso puede causar perdida de datos en el HD en elq se intenta recuperar la particion, por lo que asegurate que el HD que usas no es con el q sueles currar y en el q tienes los datos importantes. Si tu lo haces en el HD q sueles usar, es posible q la jodas, y no te cubren tus cagadas, amos q lo hagas a tu cuenta y riesgo . Si ha funcionado compretamente bien "aqui se ralla como nada... estos ingleses...no se que intenta decir"