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| Thread ID: 110379 | 2010-06-14 10:34:00 | Re-sizing Partition & No Loss of Data | namboothiri (14469) | Press F1 |
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| 1110237 | 2010-06-14 10:34:00 | Hi, In the new Seagate external 1TB HD I was able to save all the recovered files/folders by resizing the HD into 3. The EASUS Partition Master Pro had warned that loss of all data might occur however, it did not. In this scenario the following question has risen: The C drive has 3 partitions and the 1st has more than 200GB with only Vista64 OS in it. So, can this part be resized to save some disk space. I'm sure, Disk Mgmt utility won't allow but EASUS might, I suppose. Anyone tried/experienced/experimented this with success? Please advise. Thanks. |
namboothiri (14469) | ||
| 1110238 | 2010-06-14 10:55:00 | You can shrink a partition with disk management or Easus. your choice. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1110239 | 2010-06-14 10:59:00 | Sometimes you can repartition a drive and it all goes well other times it all turns to custard and you can risk losing everything. BEST bet is to back up everything, or even clone the drive before you start - just in case. Sometimes its just the luck of the draw if it stuffs up or doesn't,no real rhyme or reason / hit or miss / suck it and see --- No one can guarantee if something can or wont happen :D I had similar over the weekend, what should have been a simple re-size a partition down by 500MB, then expand the other to take the now spare space, and it all turned :yuck: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1110240 | 2010-06-14 23:45:00 | Thanks guys. I'm sure you have given me the right choice and advice. Cheers! | namboothiri (14469) | ||
| 1110241 | 2010-06-15 00:52:00 | If you are shrinking a drive (after backing it up of course) it pays to turn the swapfile off, and disable system restore... that should allow you to shrink the partition further. | 6ix (15746) | ||
| 1110242 | 2010-06-15 04:41:00 | Thanks to you too 6ix. Now I've the feedback for you:I backed up the system records in one part of one of the 2 external HD however, didn't honestly know how I could get on to it if the system failed to boot! I ran the EASEUS Partition Manager Pro and it completed all preliminary actions very well before rebooting to finish the process. Here, in a Table, the progress was recorded to 56% and further actions were to be seen at the bottom row. Here the process was scaled in 1%, 2% progression but in damn slow speed showing work pending at a 5 digit number. When I worked this out giving 1 minute each to 1%, it came out to 30 days to complete! What the H....! I don't know if anything would have changed if I had disabled the System Restore. So, loaded the Vista64 disk, restarted to 'repair' and when EASEUS turned up, gave it a smack (terminated) to get my PC back! An enquiry has been sent to their tech team to explain the reasons and how this could be improved/avoided for a better execution. |
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