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Dallas Overturf
Here's the scenario: A Friend of mine a couple years back bought a Sony
Vaio PCVRZ22G Desktop PC ;
it has plenty of memory (512Mb) and and an 80GB disk (which for him is
plenty).
They never mentioned to him (a technologically challenged person) that they
split the disk into
a 20GB boot and OS partition drive C: AND a 60GB partition drive D: where
he should install all else onto D:.
Needless to say he is running out of disk space due to this nonsensical
setup. and installing and saving things in the default manner.
Note: Sony suggeste changing My Documents to point into the D: drive which
I did but it was too little to late.
he keeps running very low on disk space (Megabytes vs. Gigabytes) and he is
sick of it.
Sony's reply on it was that it was done due to XP becoming unuseable if it
runs out of disk space; duh!
Question(s): He wants me to make a bootable backup of the hard drive onto
(a largerWestern Digital 120GB WD1200JB ) drive and then turn it into a
single partition; once working. Will Partition Magic be able to do this
automagically? AND what software should I use for Safely copying the
original XP Home OS onto the new drive? (freeware would be preferred for
this if available).
Does Partion Magic fix the registry entries for stuff on the current D:
drive to point to C: if you convert to one partition?
Any Caveats or advice appreciated! I've heard
of but never used Partition Magic before.
Thank you very much group!
Best regards, Dallas...
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Vaio PCVRZ22G Desktop PC ;
it has plenty of memory (512Mb) and and an 80GB disk (which for him is
plenty).
They never mentioned to him (a technologically challenged person) that they
split the disk into
a 20GB boot and OS partition drive C: AND a 60GB partition drive D: where
he should install all else onto D:.
Needless to say he is running out of disk space due to this nonsensical
setup. and installing and saving things in the default manner.
Note: Sony suggeste changing My Documents to point into the D: drive which
I did but it was too little to late.
he keeps running very low on disk space (Megabytes vs. Gigabytes) and he is
sick of it.
Sony's reply on it was that it was done due to XP becoming unuseable if it
runs out of disk space; duh!
Question(s): He wants me to make a bootable backup of the hard drive onto
(a largerWestern Digital 120GB WD1200JB ) drive and then turn it into a
single partition; once working. Will Partition Magic be able to do this
automagically? AND what software should I use for Safely copying the
original XP Home OS onto the new drive? (freeware would be preferred for
this if available).
Does Partion Magic fix the registry entries for stuff on the current D:
drive to point to C: if you convert to one partition?
Any Caveats or advice appreciated! I've heard
of but never used Partition Magic before.
Thank you very much group!
Best regards, Dallas...
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