From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I use either to just go directly from the old drive to the new drive, and
reset the partition sizes as I go.  Backup to CD is good too, but since
with Ghost or Drive Image, the original drive is still intact, so there's
little chance of damage.

Another option, is get Partition Magic, and shrink the size of D, and
expand C.  Shrink the size of the swap file on D first, reboot, then do the
resizing operation if you want to do this all on the original disk.

Personally, I'd use Ghost to clone the drive to a new larger drive, reboot
make sure everything is OK, and then upgrade.  You'd still have the
original disk as a full fallback.

--
Glenn M.


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:41d66d79$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> use ghost or driveimage to backup to CD, install new drive, restore from
the
> drive image and it should allow you to make any or all of the partitions
> larger, then upgrade to W2K.
>
> That's what I did with my laptop when moving from a 40g to an 80g drive
> except instead of CD I used one of those external USB drives as the image
> device.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Randall Parker"

wrote
> in message news:41d5fa08$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Here is my deal: I have a desktop PC running NT that I've been using for
> years. I've
> > replaced its power supply a couple of times, its motherboard at least
> once. The main
> > disk has a few partitions. The C: partition probably doesn't have enough
> space on it
> > (has about 300 Megs) to upgrade from NT to Win2k. But the little used D
> partition has
> > only the swap file (about 1.6 gig) and has about another 500 Megs free
> space.
> >
> > So what is my best way to:
> >
> > 1) Combine the C and D partiitons. Note that the D has the swap and so
if
> I eliminate
> > it will NT have a hard time on reboot? I can't set the C swap to be that
> big before I
> > reboot can it? There isn't the space for it.
> >
> > 2) Install Win2k.
> >
> > Could I first move my disk contents to a different newer disk that has
> more space on
> > it? Is there a way to:
> >     - add another disk,
> >     - map it as X (or whatever)
> >     - Copy the C, D, and J (it has 3 partitions) partitions to it but to
a
> much
> > bigger partition for C.
> >     - Shut down.
> >     - Take out the old disk.
> >     - Reboot with the new disk as primary and as boot disk.
> >
> > If I could do the shift to a new disk while still running NT then I
could
> have more
> > space for the C: drive and upgrade to Win2k would be easier.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
>

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