Easily Consolodating HDs?

[zaimorkai]

For a recent eternity, I have had a 7G hd that through a major initial mishap I have been using a 2G(c) partition and a 5G(d) partition. recently it was split again, to contain windows/apps on the 2G, 1G for linux mandrake 7.2, and 4G for misc stuff. As can be imagined, the 2G section, which is C, is VERY full, preventing me from having largish swap files for apps/games. I recently finally purchased a 60G hd, and have installed some games, having some issues with temp/swap files on C due to space. Is there a way/application for me to consolidate:

C: Drive 1, Part. 1, 2G, Windows/system/apps
D: Drive 2, Part. 1, 60G, games/misc
E: Drive 1, Part. 2, 4G, misc
<no letter> 1G Linux Partition on Drive 1

and move all of the information, intact, onto the 60G drive 2 thus switching my system to 1 hard drive (drive 2 becoming C) without having to reinstall windows or linux. reinstalling games etc off of drive 2 is acceptable, seeing as how some of them run of CD anyway (except the patches for Everquest, that'll suck but oh well).

In short, in case my question was too confusing, i need to find a way to move drive 1 parts a b and c to drive 2, keeping data intact. Any suggestions or hints would be greatly appreciated =)

Thx, -Chris (Zaimor Kai)

 

[wolluf]

Ghost? (not sure if it works with Linux partitions). You should be able to ghost the windows (which version?) C: drive partition to a bigger partition on 60GB drive. Once that's in place you should be able to boot from it and copy the second partition using explorer or whatever.

What boot manager are you using (if lilo or grub from Linux then think you may need to reinstall Linux on 60GB disk).

At this point, I'm thinking - this is a lot of trouble. Why not just reinstall fresh on 60Gb drive (with small drive disconnected). Install all apps etc & then just connect old drive & copy across any data. You could then reformat it as single 7GB partition to use as you will

 

[zaimorkai]

Windows version is 98 second edition w/ PLUS installed, linux version Mandrake 7.2... I'm using Grub as the boot manager. The main reason I'm attempting to do a kind of disk copy is because the 98 Plus CD I have is corrupt, due to an error while making the backup, and it took me about 12 hours of work to get linux installed correctly, and i'd like to avoid a full system reinstall as much as possible.

I'll try to find that Ghost program and see what it does me... I was actually thinking of something that i'll try here in a few minutes, I'm going to try a straight byte-for-byte copy of my entire C drive to the 60G, then set the 60G as C in the bios and see what happens... I know at least that way if it doesnt work all i have is an extra copy of windows Then I'll try booting to linux and see if i can set up another partition _from_ linux to the 60G and see what happens, and hope it doesnt corrupt the data. If that doesnt work I'll drop back by =)

Thanks!