Partition troubles

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Dave

I have a 12G hard drive that is partitioned into two
volumes, (C=4G, D=8G). I thought three years ago that 4
Gig would be enough for OS and other associated essentials.

I right now have approximately 100M left on my C drive.

I would like to fix this but don't know the best way to go
about this.

I have Norton Ghost and an old version of Partition Magic
(4.0). My thought was to ghost C + D onto a second hard
drive which is 28 Gig, Reformat both C + D, repartition C
to be larger then Ghost back C + D to their original
places.

Will this work? Is there another way to do this (as I
have not worked with Ghost before)? Is Partition Magic
the only way to alter the size of Hard Drives out there?

Additionally, Can I remove the Windows updates from my
hard drive once they have been installed? Don't these
reside on C?

Thank You in advance,
Dave
 
4 gig is enough for the operating system of w2k, works
fine for just the operating system, but not enough if your
also saving your data to the same partition. I have 4 gig
for my os and save all my data to a seperate partition.

Partition magic can enlarge that main partition, you may
have some problems booting afterwards, see w2k is VERY
picky about having it's physical space being played with.
I'm fairly certain you can do the enlargement with PM and
then do a repair of the current install, and that should
do the trick. of course I would backup my data first just
in case, the trick with Ghost is that it creates an exact
image of your drive, including partition size, if you do
the ghost and repartition then do a restore, you would
only wind up with the same size partition as you started
out with. not what you want..


To be safe backup your data, try the PM enlargement then
do the repair, if no go, you have your databacked up,
format ,choose a larger partition, do a reinstall and
restore your data.
 
You can resize the partitions using PartitionMagic but not way back at
version 4.0. Does version 4 actually list support for Windows 2000?
Does it list support to the current service pack level you have? The
latest version is 8.0. My recollection is that I had to upgrade to
version 6.0 to support Windows 2000, but obviously if you have to
upgrade then you might as well as get the latest version.
 
You can resize destination partitions using Ghost. I would use the 28 GB
disk as a new primary one.
 
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