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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (68931)	4/9/2010 11:15:56 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Resized (shrunk) my wife's XP partition--got her OS down to 15GB (indluding MS office, various Adobe software, etc.) Easeus worked flawlessly for me--I gave her ~24GB and took the rest of the HDD for myself--this will make the sector by sector backup images smaller so that is good. Here is where I got Easeus for resizing: download.cnet.com I did a defrag and a checkdisk first, and made a few passes with my registry fixer. Oh, and just for the hell of it I disabled the indexing feature for both partitions. I may re-enable it at some point, but not til I read about how it works (I was also having some trouble with indexing at one point, maybe this will help 'reset' things). I used the Acronis WD edition to create a bootable disk, booted from that, and then backed up her now smaller partition. This part is slick: Acronis sees my second HDD (even though I disabled it in bios) so that is neat if you want to keep a second HDD in the PC rather than pull it. And that makes it easy to put backup images wherever you may want to store them. ----------------- If over time you tend to disable things that load at bootup (and I do) you may end up disabling something that Acronis needs--backups jobs could fail. That happened to me, but since I don't do frequent incremental backups, I uninstalled the software on the HDD and just used the CD instead, nice.