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| Thread ID: 54265 | 2005-02-08 01:23:00 | Resizing predetermined partitions | Spartacus (3313) | Press F1 |
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| 322629 | 2005-02-08 01:23:00 | My new laptop has 2 partitions on a single drive, pre-sized from the manufacturer. I've had a search through the relevant posts on the forum, and can't find definitive answers to this particular situation: Drive C: 32G, NTFS, operating system & program files Drive D: 22G, NTFS, documents & data There is also a FAT32 recovery partition of about 2G that can just stay as it is. For various reasons I'd like to shrink the C: partition to about 10G, and bump the D: up to about 44G. I've already installed programs on C: and have data on D: Can I alter the sizes as required without affecting data, and can I do it without spending any more dosh? I do have TrueImage 8, so I guess I could image both partitions separately to another PC, reformat/resize, then restore images, BUT: Can I restore an image of a 32G partition (with less than 5G used space) to a 10G logical drive?? Will my recovery partition be affected?? Some definitive answers to these questions would be very much appreciated, thanks. Darren |
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| 322630 | 2005-02-08 02:24:00 | Well unless Trueimage can do partitioning in Windows, I wouldn't bother. The only program most people, I think know of that can do this is Partitionmagic. I've never used Truemagic, so dont know what it can / cant do. |
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| 322631 | 2005-02-08 02:45:00 | Grab the SysRescue CD from: http://www.sysresccd.org/ 110MB but it comes with QtParted which is a GUI Non-Destructive Partition manager which will allow you to do this :) Fully free too! Regards Chill. |
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