I'd vote for your final option. I just did one of these a few days ago - a company had an old server with 9 Gig SCSIs as a mirror. Used ghost to transfer one drive onto a 500 Gig RAID [after ...
The EASEUS Partition Manager Server comes with a price tag of $99.95 (Rs 4,250) and the big different is support for more operating systems. As just a partitioning tool, most users do not need one and ...
If you have another hard drive you can install to that drive, apply the latest service pack (6a) and then format the 36 GB in full. Then remove the temporary hard drive and install to the full 36 GB ...