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| Thread ID: 65102 | 2006-01-07 20:25:00 | Repartitioning a partitioned HDD | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | Press F1 |
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| 418988 | 2006-01-07 20:25:00 | I have got a 160Gb HDD already formatted to 20Gb for windows and programs, and the rest for storage, now what I want to do is make the windows partition to about 60Gb,and the rest storage, how can I do this without reformating it if there is a way? (there is no data on the windows partition, but there is about 28Gb used on the storage) Thanks :) |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 418989 | 2006-01-07 20:46:00 | As usual, this is a dangerous operation so back up beforehand. Though they're may be free solutions, PowerQuest make partition magic just for this very thing. Now owned by Symantec. www.symantec.com |
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| 418990 | 2006-01-07 20:49:00 | Actually, just looking at some HDDs I have enough space to move the storage data, then would I reformat and re partition it?, if so is there a program in Win XP Pro that can do this? | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 418991 | 2006-01-07 21:27:00 | I recently did just what you are trying to do. Under disk management in windows. I deleted the empty storage partition,then... ... using a Live CD of Knoppix 4.0.2 to boot from, then using "qparted" resized the partition with windows on it (C:) from 10Gb to 20Gb. After that just booted back to windows again and used disk manger to format remaining space for storage. Worked good for me, but backing up is a good idea, just incase of "opps". |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 418992 | 2006-01-07 21:46:00 | I have also done what Nyuuji did, except that it was only for an experiment a week before I was planning a complete reformat, etc anyway. It seemed to work and I would advise that you do a defrag before trying it, preferably disabling the Page File first then re-enabling it after the defrag. Defrag does the job a lot better when this is done. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 418993 | 2006-01-10 10:03:00 | i find partition magic great and i have used it many times cheers |
dconline (9267) | ||
| 418994 | 2006-01-10 18:42:00 | I moved all data of the drive and reformatted it and partitioned it using disk manager in windows and it done its job :) | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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