Question : Ghost Solutions Suite 2.5 Image Restore

My company uses Ghost Solutions Suite 2.5... We've use'd this to create images of different model computers in our office. The problem I'm having is the comptuer we set up with all our software and settings had a 120Gig partition, about 12 gigs of data was actually on the partition. All the other computers that would use this image have a 120 gig hard drive with a 20 gig OS partition and the remaining space in an extended partition containing irreplaceable customer data... What i need to do is overwrite the OS partition and restore the image while keeping the extended partition untouched with all its data.... It always wants to repartition the entire disk... the image is about 12 gigs... and ghost won't let me restore just to that partition... I'm using the ghostcast server and client to distribute the image.

 I've been through a million switches and parameters and can't seem to find a solution.... maybe i'm missing something and i'm going to run a nail through my face if its a simple thing...

Answer : Ghost Solutions Suite 2.5 Image Restore

It's quite strange. If you taken the image of the partition (instead of the disk) you could always restore it as a partition. As you said, the target partition is 20GB so the image containing 12GB of data should fit.

1. Could you confirm that you were taking off the image of the source partition, not disk?
2. In GhostCast server, after you selected the image to restore,  set the radio button to Partition and click on the drop-down list. Can you see the desired partition?
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