I don't use drive image myself. It's not that hard to
copy a drive image if you learn what files you can't
copy, which I learned early in my career before learning
it was hard <G>. Which it isn't, really; what's hard
is understanding what you're doing. (I'm reminded of
Malcom Forbes: "With all thy getting, get understanding."}
As for Partition Magic, I keep it only for disasters and
therefore have little experience with it as my paranoia
keeps me away from total disasters (at least so far).
I'm VERY uncomfortable if I don't have at least plans
A through E. I used to go only to plan D, but I had to
use D once, so now I have plan E as well. I'm thinking
about adding plan F <GGG>.
I really should go repartition something just for the
hell of it, but I find little time for that sort of
indulgence nowadays.
As for drive image again, I don't make any attempt to
backup an OS image. Too damn hard to keep current,
and you can always rebuild an OS. At some point I
want to have the ability to reproduce my configuration
rather than replace it. I admit there's a lot of
judgement in this, which I usually screw up; on the
other hand I've tested my (admittedly lousy) backup
strategies several times now, a testimonial to my
crummy operating procedures, and haven't lost anything
really critical yet, which is a testimonial to state
of mind, I guess. And plans A-E <ggg>.
So my advice is, take that 11 gig sucker and format it!
One partition. NTFS. GO for it.
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