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| Thread ID: 59896 | 2005-07-16 04:10:00 | Resizing a partition | Greven (91) | Press F1 |
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| 372616 | 2005-07-16 04:10:00 | I allocated too little space for C drive on my parent's computer, and too much for the my documents partition. Are there any suggestions on how to resize the partition without running the risk of corrupting the disk? Would ghost (or a similar program) be able to make an image of the drives (so that I don't lose all the settings & have to reinstall everything), then put everything back into the new partitions I will create? While I have your attention, does anyone know how to map a network drive to a folder? I know it can be done because I've mapped my music share to a folder on my parent's desktop, but that was a long time ago & I can't remember how I did it. It takes the best parts of both a shortcut and a mapped drive - like a shortcut, it only tries the connection when it is accessed, and doesn't disapear if the connection fails. Like a mapped drive, I can expand it in the folders tree & easily browse through it. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 372617 | 2005-07-16 05:35:00 | I think system rescue can do it. | gum digger (6100) | ||
| 372618 | 2005-07-16 06:44:00 | I allocated too little space for C drive on my parent's computer, and too much for the my documents partition. Are there any suggestions on how to resize the partition without running the risk of corrupting the disk? Would ghost (or a similar program) be able to make an image of the drives (so that I don't lose all the settings & have to reinstall everything), then put everything back into the new partitions I will create? How many partitions does the hard drive have? If there are only two you could copy or image the contents of the Documents partition onto the Windows partition then delete the former, create new partitions, format them and restore the Documents partition to one of the new ones. If you are wanting to increase the size of the partition that Windows is on then that task could be done with a partitioner program but will be a bit more risky. Have a look at this thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) for some info that may be useful. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 372619 | 2005-07-16 07:13:00 | You could use Ghost to make an image of both partitions and then resize them and ghost back onto them. You'd need to Ghost onto another drive. | pctek (84) | ||
| 372620 | 2005-07-16 10:09:00 | thanks. I think I've got enough free space on my computer for the ghost images. Does ghost (or a similar program) have a trial version? The hard drive only has 2 partitions. There isn't enough free space on the windows partition to copy the documents partition across. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 372621 | 2005-07-16 10:17:00 | Qtparted or Partimage.... ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 372622 | 2005-07-16 11:20:00 | lol i feel special foxy put a link to my post... lol i would suggest getting partition magic hten agian y buy something to use it once... |
CorbinH (37) | ||
| 372623 | 2005-07-16 11:58:00 | CorbinH is right, use Qtparted coz its free ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 372624 | 2005-07-16 14:07:00 | Partition Magic will do it without risk to the data. I use it all the time to resize partitions. We can sort something out on Monday if you like. Haven't tried any of the free ones, but if they work, then why not? ;) |
E|im (87) | ||
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