Re: Using Drive Image to adjust space?

"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"Terry Pinnell" wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> I'm not too familiar with DI 2002, but Partition Magic
> (which came with DI 7.0) will shrink that oversize 40GB
> partition very simply.
>
>*TimDaniels*

Thanks. I have PM 7 too, but have not yet installed it on Janet's PC.
And it appears that DI 2002 can resize too. Never done it before, but
apparently just a matter of dragging its rh edge leftwards. I'll
probably still need to increase size of F, as not much leeway. If so,
that means first decreasing size of G. And I really ought to make a
new partition on HD1 first, as in the long term I don't want OS and
data all together. That of course, as Wolfgang said, has implicatiuons
for drive letters. All makes me a tad apprehensive! Particularly as
confidence is low after DI crashed on my *own* PC today, while using
Copy Drive. (Will post separately.)

Terry, UK
.

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