Re: Using Drive Image to adjust space?

Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"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

Happy to report my approach proved successful. These were steps:

1) Copied C:\Documents and Settings\Janet\My Documents to
G:\C-MyDocs\My Documents to reduce size of C: by about 3GB, and
provide another backup in addition to one made automatically last
night of entire C:\Documents and Settings.

2) Installed PM 7.0 and made Rescue Diskettes. (I'd previously done
chkdsk on C: and G:)

3) With PM, resized 38GB C: partition to about 8GB. That was the step
I was most nervous about, but it went smoothly as you'd suggested.
(Note that I could *not* do this in DI as I'd thought earlier.)

4) Used Drive Image 2002 to Copy Drive C: to F: That took a long time
but again went well.

5) Was then able to dual boot as desired!

6) Used PM 7 to resize C: back up to 38GB

7) Copied G:\C-MyDocs\My Documents back to C:\Documents and
Settings\Janet

---------

The only glitch was that somehow both versions of XP (on C: and F:)
now identified the special folder 'My Documents' as being
G:\C-MyDocs\My Documents. So various programs Open/Save interfaces
were now misleading and irritating. Took a while to stumble on the
cure: from Start, r-click My Documents and in Properties use the Move
option to re-specify C:\Documents and Settings\Janet. (I'd be
interested if anyone can explain why that issue arose please.)

On testing the alternative boot, I'd forgotten about the 'active'
partition apparently always getting called C:, so it came as a
surprise that C: and F: were reversed <g>.

So that's a nice friendly environment on tap immediately should she
ever have another disaster with the other HD.

Much appreciate the help I received here.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
.

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