Re: Using Drive Image to adjust space?

"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*
.

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