Re: Using Drive Image to adjust space?

"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"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*

Many thanks, very helpful. Will get back on the case tomorrow. At
present side-tracked by other problems concerning Windows Update!

Terry, UK
.

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