Re: Using Drive Image to adjust space?

"Terry Pinnell" wrote: 
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 


       DI quite probably shrinks partitions the same way that
       Partition Magic does.  It's a pretty simple operation as
       no internal data has to be moved as with partition-shifing.
       I've used PM to shrink partitions, and it did it quickly and
       correctly.  I'd be more leary of partition-shifting.  It might
       help to defrag the partition (known to Disk Management
       as a "Local Disk") before doing the shrinking so as to
       consolidate as much data at the start of the partition as
       possible.  But then, you have to trust that the defrag goes
       well, too...    :-)

       By the way, if you want a dedicated copy/clone utility for
       HDs only (not for external media), try Casper XP (for WinXP
       systems).  You can download a free trial copy from the
       Future Systems Solutions' webpade at
       www.FSSdev/products/casperxp/ .  I tried it and like it
       enough to buy a copy.  The paid version comes with a
       copy of Drive2Drive, which is for pre-XP/NT/2K Windows
       OSes.

*TimDaniels*
.

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