Using Drive Image to adjust space?

[terrypin]

Following a major crash my wife had a second 40GB HD installed recently. Unfortuntely, the installer took the simplest option of making the whole new drive a single partition, instead of two of 8GB and 32GB, identical to the other drive. The organisation is therefore now as follows:

HD1

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C 40GB:Win XP Home SP2, programs and all data

HD2

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F 8GB: Empty

G 32GB: Nightly backups of all data and settings from C

That's more secure than before, but I'd like to go futher. I want to use DriveImage 2002 to copy the OS to F, so that in an emergency we could boot up to that instead of C. But DI won't allow that. Even though C contains only a TOTAL of about 7GB, and F is 8GB, it says there is insufficient space.

It's been 3 years since I last used DI, so I'm nervous about how best to proceed. Can I achieve my aim bu using the facilities under Disk Operations to 'Redistribute free space among partitions'? Is that relatively risk free? Hate to think of the marital consequences of wiping WinXP! <g>

Any advice would be much appreciated please.

Terry, UK