formerprof

Dear Richard,

Thanks so much for these detailed instructions. I thought maybe they'd be
overkill, but I felt secure throughout and they worked properly which is the
great criterion.

Happy New Year to you and yours.

formerprof


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It is always better to keep your personal files (photos, music, letters
> etc.) on a different partition than the system drive/partition.
>
> 1. Defrag your system partition
>
> 2. Image your system partition to an external drive
>
> 3. Shrink the system partition
>
> 4. Create one, or more new partitions in the unallocated space you free up
> by shrinking the system partition.
>
> 5. Move all of your personal files to partition D:, or whatever partition
> you just created. Empty the recycle bin.
>
> 6. Defrag the system partition again. Remember, you just copied, and then
> deleted, your personal files from the system partition - leaving a lot of
> holes.
>
> 7. Create a new image (and verify same) of the system partition and save
> the image (temporarily) on one of your new partitions.
>
> 8. Once satisfied that the new image is competent, you can now delete the
> original image from your external drive
>
> 9. Create a new image (without your personal files) of the system
> partition on your external drive
>
> 10. Now you can delete the temporary image you have stored on your newly
> created partition
>
> For the record, I archive all of my images on an external drive. I keep
> the last known good working image on an internal hard drive. I update this
> image constantly, when the system is in a known good condition. I then
> copy the image to the external drive so as to have the latest image in two
> different locations, one for convenience - one for safety.
>
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
> "formerprof" <formerprof@yahooNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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>>I have Vista Ultimate installed on a 300 gb hard disk. About 65 gb are
>>used and the remainder is free. Is there any reason why I can't boot
>>Acronis Disk Director from CD and take, say, 80 or 100 gb for a second
>>partition?
>>
>> In the alternative I could "Ghost" the existing partition with True Image
>> 10 and then repartition the drive 200/100. I know that Acronis claims to
>> be able to shrink an imaged partition into a smaller space on
>> restoration.
>>
>> I'd like to do this and avoid the necessity of doing a complete fresh
>> install. All assistance gratefully received.
>>
>>
>> formerprof
>>
>> PS Everything is backed up, my license is legit, I love/hate
>> Windows/Linux, think that Bill Gates should be jailed/decorated and
>> brushed my teeth this morning.
>>
>
>