Question : How do I restore a ghost image to different drives/partitions of different size?

I have a server with four 300G drives grouped with raid5.  There are two partitions on the drive, C and E.  I want to image these with ghost and restore them to 2 pairs of raid1 drives that are 600Gig.  How do I restore to two different drives and make the partiotions larger?

I tried a simple disk to disk image and restored it to the new drives.  The new drives are two pairs of disks, each pair is raid1.  After the restore I had four drives (C, D, E, F).  and the partitions are the old size.  Its like the raid1 config was overwritten.  The server is a Dell and the raid1 config looks right.  when I boot it says there are two virtual disks recognized.  I dont understand why after the restore I see 4 drives...

any help is appreciated.

Answer : How do I restore a ghost image to different drives/partitions of different size?

Found the solution.

- Create an image of each partition with Ghost32 onto an external drive (I used a usb drive)

- Pull the old disks and number thier slot assignments (i think this is best)

- Install new drives

- Boot with Ghost cd

- create primary partition with gdisk32 (gdisk 1 /cre /pri /for /p /sz:299872 /ntfs /for)  (I think thats what I used)

- create the MBR (gdisk 1 /mbr)

- restore ghosted partition.  Make sure to assign the new larger size to the destination.

- reboot

- Go to manage computer -> disk manager and let windows convert the disk.

- rinse and repeat for the second drive.  The command for gdisk is the different:
(gdisk 2 /cre /pri /for /p /sz:598976 /ntfs /for)

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