Imaging a 40 GB boot disk

[Spike]

Here is my situation... I picked up a 200 GB seagate at Fry's a month or so ago ($60 AR, can't complain about that). Now I am ready to put it in my comp as I am switching to a new case at the same time. I currently have a 40GB WD as my system drive and a 250GB Maxtor as my files drive. As the WD drive is over 5 years old, I am basically taking my life in my hands by continuing to use it. The optimal soulution for me would be to partition a 40GB chunck of my 200 gb, and image the drive onto that partition. Is there a way to do this and what software do I need?

Basically I want to keep my current setup, but move that old drive out so I don't have sudden failures. I want to have the other 160 gb of that drive for music, movies, and such while keeping the 40 GB for my os. Thanks for any help you can give

-spike

 

[zimu]

use partitionmagic to create the 40GB partition on the 200 gig drive.
use partitionmagic to copy the partition of your current 40gb to the new partition. you can also use norton ghost for this.
make the partition active and primary.

that should do it. i think. make sure you have a backup boot disk

 

[huesmann]

Can't you use MaxBlast to just copy the old disk over to the new one?

I'm not sure if it'll partition the entire 200GB or just the 40GB. Even if it does you can just use Partition Magic or Ranish Partition Manager to shrink the boot partition back down to 40GB and create a new partition in the extra space.

 

[Spike]

Thanks for the reply, I plan to try this on sunday, hopefully all will go well. I will let you guys know if I need any more help

-spike

 

[LeetestUnleet]

PowerQuest also makes a program called DriveCopy that does just what you want to do, although Partition Magic can do it too... it's all about the marketing