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<blockquote data-quote="donetao" data-source="post: 323688" data-attributes="member: 27614">I will ofter my 2 cents while you&#039;re waiting for WellDone. First thing, it&#039;s good that you were able to restore back to factory. At least I think that&#039;s what you have done. You&#039;re talking about XP and upgrading service packs. I assume your talking upgrading to XP3. That is a very old operating system and is no longer being supported, which will leave you venerable to all kinds of problems.Microso$$t will no longer offer patches to XP3. You really need to think about upgrading your OS. I&#039;m really not sure, but I think your wanting to use this old machine to test different programs and you want to be able to restore your OS with a back up image. It is always good to have a back up image of your HD.Macrium Reflect is a great program. I have been using it for 10 years and it has saved me several times. I have read your thread several times and some times it is very confusing to me. One thing I have noticed is that a chkdsk was made and all bad sectors were repaired.Was that done before the image was created or after. Also did you get the message that Macrium completed the image successfully.After a image is created, it should be verified to make sure the image will be-able to used to restore your PC with that image.You can also mount the image and verify that all the image is there. There are lots of tutorials telling you all these things.IMHO is is not a good idea to change the size of the C partition. In theory it probably should work. I have never shrank the C drive.I always create a back up image and save it to my external drive. I&#039;m sorry you are having so much trouble. It is very simple to create a image of your drive and restore that image with Macrium Reflect.Good luck. I hope you Get-er_done<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="donetao, post: 323688, member: 27614"] I will ofter my 2 cents while you're waiting for WellDone. First thing, it's good that you were able to restore back to factory. At least I think that's what you have done. You're talking about XP and upgrading service packs. I assume your talking upgrading to XP3. That is a very old operating system and is no longer being supported, which will leave you venerable to all kinds of problems.Microso$$t will no longer offer patches to XP3. You really need to think about upgrading your OS. I'm really not sure, but I think your wanting to use this old machine to test different programs and you want to be able to restore your OS with a back up image. It is always good to have a back up image of your HD. Macrium Reflect is a great program. I have been using it for 10 years and it has saved me several times. I have read your thread several times and some times it is very confusing to me. One thing I have noticed is that a chkdsk was made and all bad sectors were repaired. Was that done before the image was created or after. Also did you get the message that Macrium completed the image successfully. After a image is created, it should be verified to make sure the image will be-able to used to restore your PC with that image. You can also mount the image and verify that all the image is there. There are lots of tutorials telling you all these things. IMHO is is not a good idea to change the size of the C partition. In theory it probably should work. I have never shrank the C drive. I always create a back up image and save it to my external drive. I'm sorry you are having so much trouble. It is very simple to create a image of your drive and restore that image with Macrium Reflect. Good luck. I hope you Get-er_done;) [/QUOTE]

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