Ghost [Another Topic]

[WinnieThePujols]

Just found this site today, through Google! I've got a hypothetical Ghost situation I need answered.

I have a hard drive...a rather large one, too. Upwards to 300 GB. (I think it's 250 GB, to be exact...)

Anyway, I made six partitions, basically to keep things super organized. Two of these partitions are "Games" (35 GB) and "Movies" (117! GB).

I've been purchasing way more games than I ever could have anticipated, and I can't believe how quickly mods eat away at space when you download dozens of them on a daily basis. Anyway, the "Games" partition is nearly full...I could start installing games elsewhere, but then I wouldn't be so organized! The "Movies" partition, on the other hand, has almost nothing on it. It doesn't look like I'll be putting anything on there anytime soon, either. (I thought ripping a DVD was a heck of a lot faster than the 40 minutes it takes me).

Here's what I'm wondering: I want to take Partition magic, and wipe that 117 GB partition named "Movies." Out of that, I want to make a new partition named "Gaming," at maybe...80-100 GB. Then, I want to Ghost the contents of the "Games" partition to that of the newly-created "Gaming" partition...now a problem is going to exist: the original "Games" partition is recognized as drive G:. Can I then wipe the (old) "Games" partition, and then re-assign the new "Gaming" partition to G: and have everything work properly!?

I realize that was probably really confusing, so I'll try and summarize:
I have G: Games and P: Movies.
I want to wipe the Movies partition, make a new-and-improved (size-wise) Gaming partition...then copy my G: Games contents' to the new partition I made, delete the old one...re-assign the new partition as G: [eg: G: Gaming] and have it work properly! Meaning, not having to re-install everything...

If you were somehow able to overcome the confusingness of this, is it possible? And should it work without any problems?

Thanks!

[EzyStvy]

Remove P: and Resize G: to make it larger...

[WinnieThePujols]

Originally Posted by EzyStvy Remove P: and Resize G: to make it larger...

Yeah, but...I thought if you re-sized a partition, it has to delete everything on it? The whole point of the project is to not have to re-install the games on G:...

Or am I mistaken?

[EzyStvy]

"Symantec’s Norton PartitionMagic™ 8.0 lets you easily organize your hard drive by creating, resizing, copying, and merging disk partitions. Separate your operating system, applications, documents, music, photos, games, and backup files to reduce the risk of data loss if your system crashes. You can use Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 to run multiple operating systems safely."

http://www.symantec.com/partitionmagic/

[WinnieThePujols]

Originally Posted by EzyStvy "Symantec’s Norton PartitionMagic™ 8.0 lets you easily organize your hard drive by creating, resizing, copying, and merging disk partitions. Separate your operating system, applications, documents, music, photos, games, and backup files to reduce the risk of data loss if your system crashes. You can use Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 to run multiple operating systems safely." http://www.symantec.com/partitionmagic/

Thanks a lot!

[Zakk_Wylde]

best thing would to back-up all the data first in-case of an accident ... if i had to do it i would just wipe away both partions and then make the new one and transfer the data from backed-up disks or other partions