Inadvertantly did a Norton Ghost copy of a smaller drive and copied the MBR. Now it only sees 60gb of 500gb on my external drive

GHOST is a program to copy one ENTIRE disk-drive to another disk-drive. Check www.norton.com for details on how to use the software.

Dear Fixit2009
do you mean clone a window or any system that is in the hard disk to another hard disk?
if you mean it, I suggest you use a ghost, because it is so easy to use and saves you time and
If you want to change your patision space in the windows system, patision magic is simple software to make the process
If you are using genuine software is better, but if you want to get free, trying to find using utorent.
thank you.......
hopefully in can help you .......

If it's a Norton disk, call Norton, it should be bootable. If it's a disk you burned, it may not be a bootable system disk. Make sure your computer is set to boot from CD/DVD drive in the bios (setup) Press F2(usually, sometimes it's delete) while booting, go into setup, and make sure under boot devices/sequence that your disk drive is first in the boot sequence. Try the disk on another machine to see if it's the disk, or the machine. If it's the disk, Call Norton (if it's theirs) or have someone make another one for you.

Do a disk defrag on the source drive. If that doesn't work, you may have a virus on your source drive and norton ghost is catching before getting on your destination drive.

Yes it is possible you can create image of your all partition in external drive with "Norton ghost" software.
Then you can easily restore image to harddisk again when you need.
You can download it from below link.
click here

Let me know if you need more assistance.
Thanks.

I've seen a lot of flack about these puppies lately. It's usually due to the external enclosure, the harddrive is in, and not the harddrive itself.

It is for this reason, that I suggest that you take the harddrive out of this enclosure, and install it into a decent, affordable, new external enclosure.
External enclosures are relatively cheap!

The harddrive inside the Maxtor One Touch II is a desktop size harddrive. It's a 3.5 inch one.
(3 and a half inches across in width)
It is a Sata harddrive.

These are examples of external enclosures for a Sata 3.5 inch harddrive,
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=2780&name=3.5-eSATA-enclosure&Nav=|c:2778|&Sort=0&Recs=10
(My recommendation would be the Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360 Su-BL)

This external enclosure has instructions, is easy to install the harddrive, and uses a USB cable just like your old one.

Hi,
If your wanting to move a whole drive to a bigger drive say....

Look at something like Norton ghost, disc imaging software, good software for this job..

http://en.softonic.com/s/free-download-norton-ghost-9

Regards
Richard

try to use norton ghost and look for the image file

There is a program called Norton Ghost. Use the program and copy your hard drive (HDD) to an external HDD for future use.

Most of the time the problem can be solved by using a cable that is really short and of good quality.

or try another usb slot and see whether the problem repeats.

Now if the external drive is FAT (most of them come from factory as FAT formatted) and u are trying to copy files grater than 4GB, it will fail as FAT cannot recognize files larger than 4GB. SO you may try to format the external drives into NTFS, if thats the case.