[ 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

[judson70]

I have a similar setup with a 300 Gig Drive .. got worried, realized there was no way ( that i had) to back -up it all, so i bought another drive and set up a mirrored raid set ... problem solved. I pulled the 2nd drive out after the mirror and if the other drive fails. I'll just swap drives .... back up to where I was to start with ... as far as what to install before the "back-up", install XP, let it run for a week, then back it up .. in that amount of time you'll have your "base" install setup like you like it.

Peace.