Restore Backup after changing partition

[Dick Watson]

Env: WinXP SP2++, RAID 0 (Promise FastTrax 133 Lite) on two IDE drives, 3
partitions presently, System partition is bootable, etc., have **large**
external disk on USB2.

Goal: three partitions on RAID 0 array are misshapen. Want to enlarge the
first one, retain the second, and eliminate the third. Considering being too
cheap to buy Partition Magic for ten minutes use.

Issue: ASR Wizard restores partition information. All my googling finds no
way to edit this in the backup prior to the restore.

Question: Will I get a workable restored system (with different partition
sizes) if I

- use NTBACKUP to backup all of the current system partition with System
State/Automatically backup System Protected Files options and, separately,
the second partition to backup files on the external USB drive,

- repartition and reinstall base XP--just enough to get an administrator
account that can get at the external drive with NTBACKUP,

- reinstall SP2,

- then restore all contents from each of the backups?

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Goal: three partitions on RAID 0 array are misshapen. Want to enlarge the
first one, retain the second, and eliminate the third. Considering being too
cheap to buy Partition Magic for ten minutes use.

Question: Will I get a workable restored system (with different partition
sizes) if I

- use NTBACKUP to backup all of the current system partition with System
State/Automatically backup System Protected Files options and, separately,
the second partition to backup files on the external USB drive,

- repartition and reinstall base XP--just enough to get an administrator
account that can get at the external drive with NTBACKUP,

- reinstall SP2,

- then restore all contents from each of the backups?

Dick,

in theory, yes. Ideally you want to back up and restore your
working partition while running a Windows installation in
another partition.

Some related background info is at http://winhlp.com/WxMove.htm
..

Hans-Georg