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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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| 768414 | 2009-04-25 16:51:00 | My HDD has been partitioned System (70GB) and Data (170GB), and I need more system space now. Can I use any of the Vista utilities to do this? I have looked in disk manager, and in DOS "Diskpart" but neither seem keen to expand the size of the primary partition. Disk manager greys out the option to enlarge the drive size in the primary partition and Diskpart returns error - "There is not enough usable space on specified disk(s) to extend the volume." Next move please?! Many thanks, DrMD |
DrMD (7778) | ||
| 768415 | 2009-04-25 21:19:00 | Have you actually got space to extend the partition into? You'll either have to delete or shrink an existing partition. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 768416 | 2009-04-25 21:22:00 | Good Morning. Easiest solution here to to download Gparted here (sourceforge.net), then burn to a blank cd/dvd Boot from it, and partition away:) Be sure to backup your documents and possibly bootloader first, as there are known cases where partitioning the system drive will overwrite stuff. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 768417 | 2009-04-25 22:04:00 | To make sense of what the others are saying you will need to shrink the 170Gb partition first to make some space for the 70Gb partition to use when you expand it. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 768418 | 2009-04-25 22:47:00 | To make even more sense, shrinking the 170GB partition will leave an unallocated space to the right of the data partition. This has to be slid to the left, between the system and data partition. Then you expand the system partition to include the unallocated one to its right. Yes, it is a bit convoluted, but Vista's disk manager can do this. |
linw (53) | ||
| 768419 | 2009-04-26 00:09:00 | 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 |
Blam (54) | ||
| 768420 | 2009-04-27 08:07:00 | New member here :) Firstly, I'd like to say hello to everyone. Secondly, well, I come across the same problem as you once. I wanted to extend my primary partition in Vista but was worried about losing data. I dare not to use the built in resizing utility. Finally, it was a freeware that solved my problem. Umm, maybe you can also use it. Visit [edit: spam removed] :blush: [Mods comment: sigh, such a well mannered spammer - makes a change. However, spam is spam no matter how you dress it and you are well known for this ...] |
ninibearkiss (14856) | ||
| 768421 | 2009-05-02 18:59:00 | 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? |
DrMD (7778) | ||
| 768422 | 2009-05-02 20:10:00 | Hi - did you copy the file to a cd as a data burn or an iso burn ? If it was a data burn then there will only be 1 file on the CD - an iso burn opens up the files within the image and extracts them to the cd. Here is a video tutorial using cdburnerxp (a free burner with a link on the site) which may help Iso-Burning-Tutorial (www.irongeek.com) Hope this helps Trev |
TeejayR (4271) | ||
| 768423 | 2009-05-02 20:39:00 | Seriously, I wouldn't bother with repartitioning the drive. Go out and buy another drive, for $100 you can get a 500GB drive. Put it in as a slave drive and then partition that into 2 large drives - say 300GB for System disk and 200GB for Data. Then clone your current System drive to the new 300GB drive and your Data drive to the new 200GB drive. There are several cloning tools around. I use Acronis True Image (a commercial product but well worth the money in my opinion). Then just disconnect the old drive and make the new drive Master. If it doesn't work then you've lost nothing as you still have the original drive (personally I've never had a problem yet). This allows you to have the fastest newest drive as your system disk and once your new disk is up and running (run it for a couple of weeks first) you can use install and format your old disk as a slave and use it for backing up your data. |
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