[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ re-partitioning to have new OS partition, need a bit of help

[Deepone]

the problem is, I have been using this fine 298Gb HD for a while. and its been full more than just a few times.. right now I have about 20Gb free. only that it is not on the end nor on the beginning. and so far my defragmenting efforts havent helped.. so what do you suggest to do ? I have ~250Gb of anime that I dont want to lose.. and if I'm not misstaken, repartitioning with partition magic doesnt move the data so that I wouldnt lose anything. or ? :)
the reason for this operation is that I've gotten fed up with system going bad, wanting to do a clean good installation and then take a image with either Ghost or Drive Image and if something fails, going back with it. which one the board members suggest on using ? or some other product ?
also, I'm open to suggestion on the programs I should have installed on the moment I take the image :)

This post has been edited by Deepone: Jun 28 2004, 09:19 AM

[captbics]

Deepone,

Sometimes with defraggers you have to set them to run at boot time (like Diskeeper) to "pack" the disk the way you want.

I wouldn't recommend partitioning s/w. That might fail since you don't have a contiguous block the the beginning or end of your disk space.

But save off your anime BEFORE you do anything. Defragging, partitioning, or Drive Image/Ghost all recommend that you backup BEFORE you run them in case of a failure. It is software after all. One power glitch during a cleanup procedure can ruin your setup.

I've never had a problem, but be careful regardless. I'd hate to see you lose your collection.

captbics