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Thread ID: 99263 2009-04-25 16:51:00 Increwasing the size of primary partition in Vista. DrMD (7778) Press F1
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768424 2009-05-02 23:21:00 I use Acronis True Image (a commercial product but well worth the money in my opinion). Good product - If you are using Seagate drives, you can always use the free Seagate DiscWizard (www.seagate.com) - which works the same as the Acronis for cloning a Drive.

The Seagate software usually spits the dummy if there are no Seagate drives - you need at least one.

Note: this will copy the drive to another, but not resize the partitions on the existing drive. For drive resizing I also use the free Paragon Partition Manager (download.cnet.com) - you have to register it to get a key, but its free and no big deal.
wainuitech (129)
768425 2009-05-03 00:12:00 Hi Blam 6:

Thanks for advice. Can you take me through the next steps. have downloaded GParted onto CD. Having trouble getting it to boot. Have Gigabyte GA-P35 / Vista Home.
I have set boot priority to CD-ROM first. It asks boot DVD/CD, then I can hear it run but it proceeds to boot into Vista!

Where have I gone wrong?

As Trev said, did you burn the image to the CD or just the file?

Insert a black Cd into CD/DVD rom drive
Download ImgBurn (speedlabs.org) then select "Burn Image to CD"

Burn at slowest speed possible.

Blam
Blam (54)
768426 2009-05-03 00:25:00 As Trev said, did you burn the image to the CD or just the file?

Insert a black Cd into CD/DVD rom drive
Download ImgBurn (speedlabs.org) then select "Burn Image to CD"

Burn at slowest speed possible.

Blam

I would use a blank CD as a black one might not be empty :p
gary67 (56)
768427 2009-05-03 00:40:00 I would use a blank CD as a black one might not be empty :p

:waughh: I really must get my speech to text software working....I sometimes type so fast everything turns out....ierwd:p
Blam (54)
768428 2009-05-04 02:13:00 Actually it can't linw-not the system partition unfortunately.

Moving/Resizing partitions can all be done within gparted. just ask here if you get stuck:)

Blam

Sorry, have done it on my Vista Home Premium! XP may not be able to do it but the Vista disk management tools are far better.
linw (53)
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