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Thread ID: 135627	2013-11-25 02:42:00	What's the best program to expand the C:\ partiton windows XP	dugimodo (138)	Press F1

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1360830	2013-11-25 02:42:00	As per the title. I helped a friend replace his hard drive and clone it across which worked after 3 attempts, but now the new drive has a 300G C: partition which is full like on the previous drive instead of a 2TB partition as we intended. I assume something like partition magic will allow me to fix this, what's the best (preferably free) tool for this. As an interim measure I made a 640G partiton and a 930G (or approx those numbers) partition to give him some drive space to use, then deleted the 640 so there's a big unpartitioned gap adjacent to the C:\ drive waiting to be used. Never had so much grief cloning a drive by the way, tried Acronis first as it lets you resize the partitions. It wouldn't start the process, I think because the C: drive was too full. Then found my paid copy of active@ and made a boot disk and used that, took 1 3/4 hours, said it was complete, cloned drive wouldn't boot and I couldn't get it to repair either (it needed a network driver but cleverly turned off the mouse and keyboard just as the error message occured so you couldn't respond to it - both were working earlier in the process). Gave up in frustration and cloned it again, worked this time but we were out of time to fix the partition size issue - must have been 6-7 hours of hair pulling.	dugimodo (138)
1360831	2013-11-25 03:13:00	Never had a problem with AOMEI Partition Assistant (www.disk-partition.com) - You make a bootable CD from the options. It works better than trying to do it from within Windows.	wainuitech (129)
1360832	2013-11-25 04:06:00	I've used this many times and found it to be very easy: www.partition-tool.com You install it in Windows and make the required changes and Apply them then it reboots into a DOS mode and makes the changes then reboots back into Windows and you're done. You can then uninstall the software if you don't want it anymore. As always. whenever you are going to make changes like this on a system make sure you backup all your data first!	CYaBro (73)
1360833	2013-11-25 04:27:00	Thanks guys I'll try those. No problem with backups given this is a clone of the original which is untouched and sitting at my place.	dugimodo (138)
1360834	2013-11-25 07:55:00	Another tick for the Easeus product.	linw (53)
1360835	2013-11-25 08:55:00	GParted Live CD. Open source, free, not too big of a download, and support for a very very broad hardware range :-) Its literally a partition magic clone, same style interface, super easy :D	Chilling_Silence (9)
1360836	2013-11-25 09:24:00	this is a clone of the original which is untouched and sitting at my place.My mind goes beyond imagination! :D ;)	Greg (193)
1360837	2013-11-25 09:29:00	GParted Live CD. Open source, free, not too big of a download, and support for a very very broad hardware range :-) Gparted = 165MB AOMEI = 3.66MB Easeus = 25.3MB Hmmmmmm ;) The Free AOMEI allows you to create bootable CD, where as EASEUS requires the paid, Pro + versions.	wainuitech (129)
1360838	2013-11-25 19:57:00	Gparted = 165MB AOMEI = 3.66MB Easeus = 25.3MB Thanks for AOMEI - never heard of it before, but if I ever need a partition tool, i'll give it a go. As an aside, anyone else feel silly burning ISOs of a few MB to a CD? I did it recently and thought it was a little dumb. The price you pay for using old OSes like XP I guess :D	autechre (266)
1360839	2013-11-25 20:36:00	Gparted = 165MB AOMEI = 3.66MB Easeus = 25.3MB Hmmmmmm ;) The Free AOMEI allows you to create bootable CD, where as EASEUS requires the paid, Pro + versions. Are you sure I use the FREE Easeus, it did make a bootable CD . Thats how I run it, from a bootable CD it created. Partition Magic was the easiest Ive used, I dont think thats still freeware(??) , so I had to go to Easus. Never had any luck with earlier versions of gparted..to hard to use so gave up & went to something easier.	1101 (13337)
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