Slave the drive to an XP system (I know Howard, I know...) and use Ghost32 to pull an image off the drive. Make two copies, and make sure you can get to all of the info from the C partition. Copy his info off the D drive. Kill the partitions, and use ghost to lay down the C drive image back down. Ghost will automagically resize the partition to the full size of the drive. put his D drive files in a folder on the C drive, and RUN. Get away from this client. You're asking for a lot of heartache when someone disregards a system to that degree.
I know you have XP, but let's face it, it's a tool. So is Ghost, so is Linux, and G4Linux. I just know that you can use the ghost32.exe and it will auto-resize the partition. -T Howard White wrote: > I know this is really old news but chalk up another save of a choked > Windows XP by booting an Ubuntu live disk and moving some files around. > > There are two points to this post: the "footprint" of the live disk > system and the dreaded NTFS resize question. > > The computer being rescued is that of a local attorney who gave me the > entire "I hate working on computers / this can't be full" diatribe as I > tried to see what was going on. He admits that he has done no > maintenance; it's a toaster to him. Diagnosis - it's a Gateway (ugh) > with 256mb RAM and a 40gb disk. Disk partitioned 6gb vfat, 34gb NTFS; > C-drive now full, D-drive almost completely empty. Attorney expected > the recurring "drive full" errors to just go away. > > Ubuntu 9.04 did boot but took quite a while what with there being only > 256mb of RAM. Point being that we've come to be spoiled by more recent > computers having GBs plural. Could the group suggest a live disk tool > to run in more modest circumstances; maybe even CLI only?? > > I _really_ don't want to reinstall XP if I can help it. The client's > email is a particular concern. Given that the incumbent NTFS partition > is real big and not being used to any extent, does anybody trust parted > to make the NTFS partition smaller? I know that parted can make the > vfat partition larger. Hmmmmm, do I back all the files off of the NTFS > partition; blow it away and expand the vfat as big as possible? > > Howard > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
