>So i have a VM that was originally created with a dynamic disk in VPC 2004.
>I have since maxed out the size at 15GB and have no more free space
>available. I read that VPC 2007 has a max disk size of 130GB so I went ahead
>and upgraded hoping that my disk would then continue to group past the
>previous limit of 15GB but that is not the case. Does anyone know a way to
>work around this. I really don't want to start from scratch. Anyway to
>convert the max size from 15GB to 130GB?

> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 14:09:00 -0700, sc <(email address - cut out)>
> wrote:
>
>>So i have a VM that was originally created with a dynamic disk in VPC
>>2004.
>>I have since maxed out the size at 15GB and have no more free space
>>available. I read that VPC 2007 has a max disk size of 130GB so I went
>>ahead
>>and upgraded hoping that my disk would then continue to group past the
>>previous limit of 15GB but that is not the case. Does anyone know a way
>>to
>>work around this. I really don't want to start from scratch. Anyway to
>>convert the max size from 15GB to 130GB?
>
> You will have to do it in exactly the same way as if you had bought a
> new bigger drive for your physical PC....
>
> 1) Put the new empty drive in the PC chassis on a free IDE channel
> (this is equivalent to attaching a new bigger VHD disk to the guest
> you have already via the settings in the VPC2007 console)
>
> 2) Boot up the guest from a Ghost2003 boot floppy image (or any other
> imaging software you might own)
>
> 3) Make a ghost transfer from the too small disk to the new empty disk
>
> 4) When done release the ghost floppy and shut down the guest
>
> 5) Now in the guest settings in the VPC2007 console remove the old
> disk VHD file and then attach the new vhd file as the first disk.
>
> 6) Boot up the guest
>
> This is what you would do in a real PC too and it will work on VPC as
> well.
>
> /Bo
>
>
> Bo Berglund
> bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 14:09:00 -0700, sc <(email address - cut out)>
> wrote:
>
>>So i have a VM that was originally created with a dynamic disk in VPC
>>2004.
>>I have since maxed out the size at 15GB and have no more free space
>>available. I read that VPC 2007 has a max disk size of 130GB so I went
>>ahead
>>and upgraded hoping that my disk would then continue to group past the
>>previous limit of 15GB but that is not the case. Does anyone know a way
>>to
>>work around this. I really don't want to start from scratch. Anyway to
>>convert the max size from 15GB to 130GB?
>
> You will have to do it in exactly the same way as if you had bought a
> new bigger drive for your physical PC....
>
> 1) Put the new empty drive in the PC chassis on a free IDE channel
> (this is equivalent to attaching a new bigger VHD disk to the guest
> you have already via the settings in the VPC2007 console)
>
> 2) Boot up the guest from a Ghost2003 boot floppy image (or any other
> imaging software you might own)
>
> 3) Make a ghost transfer from the too small disk to the new empty disk
>
> 4) When done release the ghost floppy and shut down the guest
>
> 5) Now in the guest settings in the VPC2007 console remove the old
> disk VHD file and then attach the new vhd file as the first disk.
>
> 6) Boot up the guest
>
> This is what you would do in a real PC too and it will work on VPC as
> well.
>
> /Bo
>
>
> Bo Berglund
> bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

> "Greg Perry" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>
>> Where would I be able to buy or find this virtual ghost boot floppy file?
>
> http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10
>
>
> --
> http://www.markrae.net

> Where would I be able to buy or find this virtual ghost boot floppy file?

> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:40:22 -0500, "Greg Perry" <(email address - cut out)>
> wrote:
>
>>Where would I be able to buy or find this virtual ghost boot floppy file?
>>
>
> I bought the boxed product Ghost10 and it came with two CD:s, one was
> Ghost10 (which cannot be used for this purpose) and the other was
> Gost2003, which can.
> You install it and then you create a boot disk, which you can burn to
> CD (like I did) or to a floppy disk. Make sure to put FSHare.exe from
> the VPC2004 VMAdditions on the boot disk too!!!
>
> After you have done the boot disk you can uninstall Ghost from your
> PC, cause you don't need it anymore there. The thing you do need is on
> the boot disk. :-)
>
>
> Bo Berglund
> bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:36:10 -0400, "Sylvain Lafontaine" <sylvain aei
> ca (fill the blanks, no spam please)> wrote:
>
>>Just as a warning, Ghost 2003 only come with the boxed version of Ghost10
>>and not with the online version. There are also other imaging tools
>>around
>>which might be more suitable because Ghost 2003 itself doesn't seem to be
>>really supported anymore by Symantec.
>
> Yes,
> but it is the "old trusted" ghost program that understands NTFS file
> systems while booting up into PC-DOS for disk imaging.
> An alternative is Ghost8, which has better functions (but is more
> expensive). For example Ghost8 can connect to a second Ghost8 session
> across the network and these two can exchange disk data so that one
> instance reads and the other writes the disk.
>
> Of course Acronis True Image with Universal Restore is another
> possibility. I have not used it, however, so I cannot advice on it. I
> have used Ghost2003 many times and Ghost8 a couple of times though and
> it worked fine then.
> Except the time I had a motherboard problem on my HP laptop and tried
> to create a VM off of the undamaged laptop disk so I could work while
> the laptop was repaired...
> That never worked properly, the resulting VM bluescreened on bootup no
> matter what repair and other remedies I tried. But that is probably a
> case better forgotten...
>
>
> Bo Berglund
> bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com

>Where would I be able to buy or find this virtual ghost boot floppy file?
>

>Just as a warning, Ghost 2003 only come with the boxed version of Ghost10
>and not with the online version. There are also other imaging tools around
>which might be more suitable because Ghost 2003 itself doesn't seem to be
>really supported anymore by Symantec.

>Using the NTBackup available on many Windows systems is another possibility,
>too. Not only it's free but it's also capable of providing recovery
>services when there has been a change of hardware. (However, I never used it
>myself, so I cannot tell anything for sure about that.). See:
>
>http://macrolinz.com/macrolinz/index.php/2006/01/09/physcial-to-virtual/