Back to the drawing board: the same problem exists with extend volume be grayed out in computer management: http://ramnet.net/diskman2.jpg !

Now fortunately a 35 GB is great -- but I still want the other 10 GB!

Now what?

Ross


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I watched the video a few times, took notes and practiced. I'm all set to try it now -- once my external USB backup finishes. I'm sure that you feel is entirely trustworthy, but I trust nothing -- belts and suspenders, crazy glue, masking tape and a staple gun. That's me. And I still do not feel secure! :-)

Wish me luck, Lee!

Ross

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Well, Lee:

you were not wishing hard enough! I followed the directions precisely. I not only made another backup using Norton Ghost, but made another backup using the facility of the program itself. Then I ran a slide. It was only a 10 GB partition and it took about five hours. Then I rebooted. Trashed system. No big deal. I had my own backup plus the one the program recommended. First, I tried the program's own backup. The program could not find any backup made. I started to panic. I went to the Ghost backup. It was not recovering either. Two days of pure panic. It ends up that boot-it did some nasty stuff to my partition table which prevented ghost from recovering my backup. I had to use the program's delete partition function to delete the screwy partition, and then Norton Ghost could recover my disk.

Ross

PS: because of me delete the partition table and then recovering from the ghost backup it ends up that I now have a 35 GB free space partition! Got it the hard way, but got it!