Using Drive Image to adjust space?
- From: Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:41:46 +0100
Following a major crash, my wife recently had a second 40GB HD
installed. Unfortunately, the installer took the simplest option of
making the whole new drive a single partition, instead of two of 8GB
and 32GB, as on the other drive. The organisation is therefore now as
follows:
HD1
---
C 40GB:Win XP Home SP2, programs and all data
HD2
---
F 8GB: Empty
G 32GB: Nightly backups of all data and settings from C
That's obviously more secure than before, but I'd like to go further.
I want to use Drive Image 2002 to copy the OS to F, so that in an
emergency we could boot up to that instead of C. But DI won't allow
that. Even though C contains only a TOTAL of about 7GB, and F is 8GB,
it says there is insufficient space. Presumably it's the *partition*
size that matters, not the actual size used.
It's been a long time since I last used DI, and I'm nervous about how
best to proceed at minimum risk. Can I achieve my aim by using the
facilities under Disk Operations to 'Redistribute free space among
partitions'? Relatively risk free? Hate to think of the marital
consequences of wiping WinXP! <g>
Any advice would be much appreciated please.
Terry, UK
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