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Drive Image - adjusting space?
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| Terry Pinnell 2005-09-02, 7:46 am |
| 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
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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.
Terry, UK
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| Terry Pinnell wrote...
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>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 am not aware of this option on XP -- 'Redistribute free space among
partitions'.
Resizing partitions can easily be done using some commercial tools
like PowerQuest Partition Magic or Acronis Partition Expert or Acronis
Disk Director. You got to try one of these nice programs.
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| Terry Pinnell 2005-09-03, 7:47 am |
| harryooopotter@hotmail.co_ (Harry) wrote:
>Terry Pinnell wrote...
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>I am not aware of this option on XP -- 'Redistribute free space among
>partitions'.
>
>Resizing partitions can easily be done using some commercial tools
>like PowerQuest Partition Magic or Acronis Partition Expert or Acronis
>Disk Director. You got to try one of these nice programs.
And you got to try reading the post! It's Drive Image I'm using...
--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
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| Terry Pinnell 2005-09-03, 5:47 pm |
| For anyone else that ends up here with similar query, happy to report
the following approach proved successful:
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. (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
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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.
--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
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| old jon 2005-09-03, 5:47 pm |
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"Terry Pinnell" <terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:oldjh1tmvragtqqd2jhmkjgafkafm1pgvr@
4ax.com...
> For anyone else that ends up here with similar query, happy to report
> the following approach proved successful:
>
> 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. (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.
>
Well done T. Never give in !. Not only that, you`ve got a happy wife. (Well
for a while) <G>.
> --
> Terry, West Sussex, UK
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| Terry Pinnell wrote...
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>And you got to try reading the post! It's Drive Image I'm using...
I have Drive Image 7; never see such function to 'Redistribute free
space among partitions.' Not sure if DI2002 (aka DI6) have this.
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| Terry Pinnell 2005-09-04, 7:46 am |
| harryooopotter@hotmail.co_ (Harry) wrote:
>Terry Pinnell wrote...
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>I have Drive Image 7; never see such function to 'Redistribute free
>space among partitions.' Not sure if DI2002 (aka DI6) have this.
Yes, it does.
1) Disk Operations dialog. One of two operations shown bottom left:
Create New Redistribute
Partition Free Space
2) Quick Start Guide, page 14: "Redistribute free space among
partitions".
I'd be very surprised if the later version had dropped such a vital
facility!
--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
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