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Hi there
I still think the best method is
1) Download GPARTED partition manager
2) Reduce partition size say of D with GPARTED
3) Resize C with free space.
The problem of using Folders etc as "Mountable" partitions makes backing up and restoring your system a much more complicated process.
If you just have your OS on say "C" all you need to do is use a decent backup program say like Acronis or Ghost to backup your C image. You can then restore this even from a bootable drive (or USB stick) if you need to recover your OS and it only takes around 10 - 15 mins.
If you've got "System" type partitions all over the place this quick type of recovery isn't possible any more.
It can be done but judging by a lot of posts on this (and other Forums) it would seem people aren't terribly good with their OS housekeeping jobs and if they need to recover something would probably get themseleves hosed up pretty quickly.
Keeping the OS on its own partition might not be the sexiest way of doing it but it's SIMPLE and almost unbreakable. Backing up and restoring from any type of failure --even from a completely broken hard disk is no problem if you image the disk with one of the backup programs specified above.
I'm not saying using multiple folders as "Drives" is impossible - but any extra complications will greatly increase the chances of errors if something unexpected happens.
Cheers
jimbo