Moving around OS's

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Rodney

I currently dual boot between Win2000 Pro and XP Pro.
The problem is that the drive that XP is on is running
out of space. I have plenty of space on the drive that
is running Win2k. Is there any easier way to switch the
OS's other than completely reinstalling?
 
Ah, yes ... I see that now on reading your original post.

Well, I can't speak for Partition Magic but one option with BootItNG is to
shrink the W2K drive space (I assume it's HD-1) so as to leave sufficient
unallocated space equal to or greater than the XP drive size and do a 'copy'
of the XP drive to the new free space. Then, from BootItNG, delete the XP
original drive and do a copy of the old W2K section to that newly created
space. You can also adjust the size of the each partition according to your
wishes. Then, from the boot menu, you can add a choice to 'swap' the boot
drive to HD-1 (the original W2K), 'hide' HD-0, and boot to XP and it thinks
it's C: drive. Conversely, from the boot menu, you can create a boot item
to boot to W2K while 'hiding' XP.

This sounds complicated, but it's not ... a lot easier than re-installing or
swapping drives.

Just a suggestion ... perhaps others have a better idea.
 
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