Well last night I got a surprise when my trusted Toshiba packed it and shut down without any warning.
Went to the computer shop this morning and dug out two 160GB IDE drives. My satellite is 5-6yrs old. Does the job but spare parts are getting scarce.
Luckily I had a fairly recent image of the drive. One of the problem though is that my C: drive partition (20GB in total) was getting too small for the job. I found this program called Acronis Disk Director on their site (I'm an Acronis fanboy
) that can resize/edit/merge partitions without the need to reformat so you keep all the data. Terrific stuff. So I now have 3x40GB from an original drive that had 4x20GB and it's all working.
I thought my experience would be of interest to people who are running out of room on their boot drive.
