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| 264106 | 2004-08-22 02:34:00 | I'm trying to resize the partitions on my main harddrive, but unfortunately, Partition Magic 8 reports a bad partition table (I'm using Windows XP). So, I'm simply looking for a free program (even one that runs off a boot disk) to resize the partitions safely. I don't mind if it operates from a Linux install disc, whatever, I just want to resize my partitions ASAP. |
agent (30) | ||
| 264107 | 2004-08-22 02:39:00 | I would suggest (although I'm probably wrong) that if PM8 is reporting a problem, you might be better to fix the problem somehow first before using a free program to resize partitions. You don't really want to resize problem partitions and then find you can't access any of your partitions at all! Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 264108 | 2004-08-22 02:40:00 | Ranish Patition Manager (www.ranish.com). However if PM 8 is having issues I think you have got issues. Alternative is to get your hands on a Knoppix or Mepis live CD and use QTparted. I used Mepis to delete and re-make some windows partitions that weren't playing nice but it'll waste your data. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 264109 | 2004-08-22 06:51:00 | Personally, I don't believe that the partition table has any errors. Windows works fine, Disk Management reports everything as fine, gpart on the Insert rescue CD reads the partition table fine. The same thing has happened to me after partitioning using the Debian installer. Chilling_Silence has also said that PM8 frequently reports errors with XP drives where PM7 didn't (or something along those lines). If it really matters, I've got a Reiser FS partition at the start of the drive, then my main XP partition (NTFS 5.1), a data and programs partition (NTFS 5.1), and a media partition (FAT32). |
agent (30) | ||
| 264110 | 2004-08-22 07:27:00 | I found QtParted was good. Did the job for me. I downloaded SystemRescueCD www.sysresccd.org a light, linux bootable, which had it on. Worked fine in splitting my XP partition into 2. But I didnt try anything else. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 264111 | 2004-08-22 08:08:00 | mejoebloggs has the right idea!! Knoppix has it if you've already got Knoppix otherwise :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 264112 | 2004-08-22 10:11:00 | www.terabyteunlimited.com I used this to partition my 2nd hard drive (NTFS) & create Linux partitions to install Libranet. It worked :D |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 264113 | 2004-08-22 12:39:00 | Wow, bootitng looks good, only 500kb! How does it compare to QtParted? >Chilling_Silence > I'm new to this and have a question. I got SystemRescueCD because it takes up very little memory (i think). If Knoppix takes up more memory, would that make resizing slower? I have 256mb ram, and that seemed to be a minimum or something for Knoppix, so I thought it would go extremely slow. How does a resizer work? Someone told me it got some data, put it in ram, then shifted stuff around, then placed it back in or something, so if it is that way, would not more ram free be better? Can you start Knoppix in text mode, and then open up QtParted in a graphical window by itself? I did that in system resc. cd no idea |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 264114 | 2004-08-22 12:58:00 | Knoppix requires 80MB Ram for KDE, less will work on runlevel 2 or with twm. No, it wont affect speed either :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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