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| 412444 | 2005-12-13 20:38:00 | Hi F1'ers. I'm currently trying to resize my C:Drive which has windows xp on it. At the moment it has windows on first 10GB. I have deleted the next 60GB partition, afterwhich there are a further two partitions of roughly 60GB each, for a total of 200GB. Using the latest Knoppix live cd with qtparted, I right clicked, then resized it to 20GB, but after rebooting to windows nothing has changed. (still 10GB). What am I doing wrong? :waughh: Any penguin friendly/knowledgable ppl's wth input? Thanx. |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 412445 | 2005-12-13 21:08:00 | Don;t worry ppl . After a bit of fiddling, found a menu option under "Device" that had "commit" . So took a deep breath, and commited . Got warnings of complete data loss possablilties, but allturned out right . :thumbs: Steep learning curve . :D |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 412446 | 2005-12-14 00:24:00 | Back again! (start of a one-man thread?) Trying to resize the partition on lappy this time.(Toshiba Satallite M40,XP SP2) On this there is one partition of 38GB and and another of just 250MB at the end of it.(40GB total). Using Knoppix lice cd and qtparted,after right clicking and resizing to 20GB, a pop-up window with a small speech bubble and and "OK" appear, but nothing else. Primary parition fails to resize. Again, any input would be appreciated. |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 412447 | 2005-12-14 02:53:00 | On the first machine you were increasing the size of a partition. That should be no problem. Even the Windows disk management utilities should handle that. :D On the laptop, you are trying to reduce the size of a partition. Unless it has all its data nicely down in the first 20 GB of the original 38 GB partition, this might carry a problem or two with it. ;) I haven't used qtparted, so I don't know if it's supposed to be able to defragment a partition so there's no data in the area to be amputated. It's nice to see that it doesn't charge ahead and do things without an extra "commit" command. ;) p.s. be careful: the 250 MB partition might be a recovery partition. |
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