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1175566	2011-02-07 10:41:00	My latest searches scare the pants of me! It looks like you either need heaps of experience or have nothing to lose when you want to play with a disk carrying an active OS. It seems that you need to do more than just dial in some numbers of MB or GB you want. Might need professional help I think. I'll sleep on it. Night all..... Cheers Billy 8-{) :sleep	Billy T (70)
1175567	2011-02-07 10:50:00	I dont think XP has it. You need Vista / Win7 to shrink a partition. You'll have to use a 3rd party program for XP	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1175568	2011-02-07 18:57:00	Speedy is right, shrink volume option is not in XP. Sorry about, that assumed the laptop has Win7.	Terry Porritt (14)
1175569	2011-02-07 19:55:00	Speedy is right, shrink volume option is not in XP. Sorry about, that assumed the laptop has Win7. Hmmm...........I wonder if that Win7 function is integrated with or within other services, with registry components or similar etc, or is a single utility with potentially extractable exe file that can stand alone? Given that most of the alternatives require a boot disk it seems quite possible Anybody know? Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1175570	2011-02-07 22:13:00	I have done it a few times on XP using gparted all I do is make an image first encase it stuffs up, it never has yet. Haven't had to do it in Win 7 as I just stuck in another drive and expanded C to fill the original drive	gary67 (56)
1175571	2011-02-08 01:41:00	I have done it a few times on XP using gparted all I do is make an image first in case it stuffs up, it never has yet . Haven't had to do it in Win 7 as I just stuck in another drive and expanded C to fill the original drive Well, Gparted looks a lot less frightening, and I guess 'shrink partition' will clear the space to add a D drive, but from recent experience I have a horrible feeling that XP disk management won't let me create another partition in the newly vacated space, so do you use Gparted for that as well? I'm just finishing defragging of C at present (it was 30% fragmented), then I'll try to put a backup of the existing C onto the portable USB drive . If it is later necessary to restore from the DvDs I've made I'll end up where I started, but the backup program should then allow selection of the USB to restore the current C with programs etc back over the top . That's the theory anyway, if there is an obvious flaw, somebody let me know please . I won't be trying Gparted until I know I can restore the current C including all the programs and tweaks I've carried out . For obvious reasons I want to keep this as much as possible within the scope of Xp's services and utilities, so I assume I can use Xp's backup system to create a backup of the C drive even though the backup program is running from that partition? With Ghost it was necessary to create images of the OS drive using a boot disk, and you also needed the boot disk to restore . Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1175572	2011-02-08 07:27:00	Well, Gparted looks a lot less frightening, and I guess 'shrink partition' will clear the space to add a D drive, but from recent experience I have a horrible feeling that XP disk management won't let me create another partition in the newly vacated space, so do you use Gparted for that as well? Yes.	mikebartnz (21)
1175573	2011-02-11 02:55:00	Chickened out (bwark bwark) :blush: The risk was too great that I would blow it, so I decided I'd rather have my toenails pulled out with pliers instead . While that was being done, a local computer refurbishing/repair establishment waved their magic wand over it and for a modest fee it was done safely for me . Cost just over $50 which was good economis from my point of view, I had productive work to do (that's my excuse) . So, I've just added it to the cost of parenthood, given that we won't be feeding or housing her for the next four years, or possibly ever again . Cheers Billy 8-{) :thanks	Billy T (70)
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