atomic tofu...
Don't know if I intend to go through all that. I have two huge external HDs at my disposal; & if worse came to worse...I was going to pull everything off both partitions that wasn't system related...kill the existing D (recovery) partition...create a new smaller one & then expand the C partition...& then put all his data back in on the new D. Then I was going to repair the OS if necessary off of the OEM reinstallation CD; & do a boot-time defrag w/ Diskeeper (to defrag the system files.)
But you didn't answer my question...why can't I just rename & remap.
No matter what gets done here...his data cannot continue to stay on a small system partition, correct?
Thanks,
mark4man