partitioning, imaging and transfer speed questions

[desertmonk]

First off thanks for reading, and a bit of background.

HDD 0: 250GB (10GB recovery partition & 222.78GB OS partition with 148GB USED)
HDD1: 149GB partition





I want to mirror the 148GB's of the 222GB partition on HDD 0 to the 149GB partition on HDD 1

Understandably I can't mirror a big partition to a smaller partition. So I try to resize the 222GB partition to the same size as the destination partition (using Win Disk Management) but get all options greyed out, hence I can't resize it:








Does drive image XL image the OS too? (I know some imaging programs do not image the OS for anti piracy reasons)




If I copy and paste an item from HDD 0 straight into HDD 1 it transfers at about 8MB/s. Considering the HDD and MOBO are both SATAII, both drives have a minimum read/write of around 70 - 80MB/s, RAM has a bandwidth of several GB/s etc I thought it would be a far higher data transfer rate???




Many thanks in advance. I'd like to get this sorted before I get puzzled enough to go and buy another drive to stick in RAID because that'll make this far simpler.

 

[angelkiller]

I don't think you can resize the partition that the OS is on while you're in the OS. You need to resize that partition while that OS is not running. A simple way to do this is to use a live GParted CD. (Just download the iso file and record it to a CD) GParted is a partition tool that runs from a CD. Your OS will never be called so you will be able to resize the partition.

Drive Image XML does image the drive including the OS. But as far as I know, it does not mirror the drive, it just copies all the data.

Those speeds are odd. I would think that at drive to drive transfer would be pretty fast like you said. I'm not sure here.

 

[slyfox2151]

you cant shink that volume due to either your OS is on it, or snapshots/ page file is on it as it says :

NOTE: size of avalible space maybe resisticted if snapshots or pagefile are enabled on this volume

 

[HD_Monkey]

As the previous posters have noted, you cannot resize the partition os is installed on while you are in the os. Many 3rd party tools will allow you do this from boot cd. I use acronis disk director myself. As the for the transfer speed. That is very low. I would run checkdisk on both drives before and after partitioning.

 

[raptori]

will there be a degrade in windows performance if i restored an image of drive C to another driver C in another HDD AKA copy system driver from HDD1 to new system drive in HDD2 ..... i'm using the pc for internet general stuff ........ i used Norton ghost

 

[{JNT}Raptor]

will there be a degrade in windows performance if i restored an image of drive C to another driver C in another HDD AKA copy system driver from HDD1 to new system drive in HDD2 ..... i'm using the pc for internet general stuff ........ i used Norton ghost

Should be no degradation in performance at all...should run just fine if done correctly.


Hope it helps.

 

[Steevo]

Yes you can.



http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...ows-vistas-shrink-volume-inadequacy-problems/

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

Sounds like you're trying to image the 148gb to the 200+gb hdd....

Norton Ghost will probably do that exactly how you want..

But yeah, if you want to copy your stuff over to a partition/hdd your current OS is on (for windows anyways) you will need a boot CD.

OS X, Carbon copy cloner is AMAZING IDK if there's a windows version.