RESIZE THE PARTITION!!!

[Guest shater]

hii alll, actualy i have a 4 HD with 500Gb for each one, but i made a big

mistake by make the primary partition size 20GB, and as you all know this

storage is not enough for windows vista ultimate 64BIT and it's ubdate, SO

how i can resize the primary partition to make it more bigger WITHOUT

FORMATING, or losing the data in this partition

???????????????????????????????????????

[Guest Mark]

Re: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!!

 

Make the partition immediately after this 20GB partition smaller. Then, make

the 20GB partition bigger.

 

"shater" <shater@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> hii alll, actualy i have a 4 HD with 500Gb for each one, but i made a big

> mistake by make the primary partition size 20GB, and as you all know this

> storage is not enough for windows vista ultimate 64BIT and it's ubdate, SO

> how i can resize the primary partition to make it more bigger WITHOUT

> FORMATING, or losing the data in this partition

> ???????????????????????????????????????

[Guest John Barnes]

Re: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!!

 

Since the partition will generally remove any released space at the end of

the partition, you will probably have to delete the following partition,

expand into the freespace and then recreate your following partition. Third

party partitioning software would allow you to do this better.

 

"shater" <shater@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:E1FFCBF7-8850-43F7-85DA-FC865F29467E@microsoft.com...

> hii alll, actualy i have a 4 HD with 500Gb for each one, but i made a big

> mistake by make the primary partition size 20GB, and as you all know this

> storage is not enough for windows vista ultimate 64BIT and it's ubdate, SO

> how i can resize the primary partition to make it more bigger WITHOUT

> FORMATING, or losing the data in this partition

> ???????????????????????????????????????

[Guest Drew]

Re: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!!

 

 

"shater" <shater@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:E1FFCBF7-8850-43F7-85DA-FC865F29467E@microsoft.com...

> hii alll, actualy i have a 4 HD with 500Gb for each one, but i made a big

> mistake by make the primary partition size 20GB, and as you all know this

> storage is not enough for windows vista ultimate 64BIT and it's ubdate, SO

> how i can resize the primary partition to make it more bigger WITHOUT

> FORMATING, or losing the data in this partition

> ???????????????????????????????????????

 

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/

 

Drew

[Guest Garblich Piotr]

Re: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!!

 

 

"shater" <shater@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:E1FFCBF7-8850-43F7-85DA-FC865F29467E@microsoft.com...

> hii alll, actualy i have a 4 HD with 500Gb for each one, but i made a big

> mistake by make the primary partition size 20GB, and as you all know this

> storage is not enough for windows vista ultimate 64BIT and it's ubdate, SO

> how i can resize the primary partition to make it more bigger WITHOUT

> FORMATING, or losing the data in this partition

> ???????????????????????????????????????

 

No problem. Put the hard drive in a vise and pull one end hard for about ten

minutes and this should take care of resizing

[Guest R. C. White]

Re: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!!

 

Hi, shater.

 

Numbers! We need numbers!

 

As John Barnes said, several users have reported success with deleting that

following partition, then extending C:, and then recreating the other

partition(s). But we can't make solid recommendations without knowing more

about the size of the other partitions and how full they may be. The key to

expanding the System Partition is that there must be Free Space immediately

following it. If you don't have that space, then you must create it.

 

For example, if that 480 GB is a single partition but only 100 GB of it is

used, then you could shrink it down to 120 GB (leave some elbow room). Then

you could create a new 120 GB volume following it and move all the data to

the new partition. Then you could delete the original partition and expand

your first partition to use some or all of that space. And all without

using any third-party products; it's all built into Vista, especially Disk

Management (diskmgmt.msc).

 

Many variations are possible, but they depend on how much free space you

have or can create - contiguous to your system partition - to work with.

With your 4 big drives, you may be able to just move the data from the first

HD to another one - and then move it back later, if you like.

 

Disk Management's Help file is somewhat obtuse, but full of useful

information if you can work your way through its focus on topics that most

users never get involved with, such as dynamic drives and GPT disks. Type

"extend" into Help's search box to find a half-dozen pages on this topic.

 

RC

--

R. C. White, CPA

San Marcos, TX

rc@grandecom.net

Microsoft Windows MVP

(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

 

"shater" <shater@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:E1FFCBF7-8850-43F7-85DA-FC865F29467E@microsoft.com...

> hii alll, actualy i have a 4 HD with 500Gb for each one, but i made a big

> mistake by make the primary partition size 20GB, and as you all know this

> storage is not enough for windows vista ultimate 64BIT and it's ubdate, SO

> how i can resize the primary partition to make it more bigger WITHOUT

> FORMATING, or losing the data in this partition

> ???????????????????????????????????????

[Guest Charlie Russel - MVP]

Re: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!!

 

And while you can do this in diskmgmt.msc, it's a lot easier and more

flexible to do it with Acronis or one of the other third party tools.

 

--

Charlie.

http://msmvps.com/xperts64

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

 

 

"R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message

news:0329F472-B5F2-4D58-B2F3-30E186E6B2CF@microsoft.com...

> Hi, shater.

>

> Numbers! We need numbers!

>

> As John Barnes said, several users have reported success with deleting

> that following partition, then extending C:, and then recreating the other

> partition(s). But we can't make solid recommendations without knowing

> more about the size of the other partitions and how full they may be. The

> key to expanding the System Partition is that there must be Free Space

> immediately following it. If you don't have that space, then you must

> create it.

>

> For example, if that 480 GB is a single partition but only 100 GB of it is

> used, then you could shrink it down to 120 GB (leave some elbow room).

> Then you could create a new 120 GB volume following it and move all the

> data to the new partition. Then you could delete the original partition

> and expand your first partition to use some or all of that space. And all

> without using any third-party products; it's all built into Vista,

> especially Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc).

>

> Many variations are possible, but they depend on how much free space you

> have or can create - contiguous to your system partition - to work with.

> With your 4 big drives, you may be able to just move the data from the

> first HD to another one - and then move it back later, if you like.

>

> Disk Management's Help file is somewhat obtuse, but full of useful

> information if you can work your way through its focus on topics that most

> users never get involved with, such as dynamic drives and GPT disks. Type

> "extend" into Help's search box to find a half-dozen pages on this topic.

>

> RC

> --

> R. C. White, CPA

> San Marcos, TX

> rc@grandecom.net

> Microsoft Windows MVP

> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

>

> "shater" <shater@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:E1FFCBF7-8850-43F7-85DA-FC865F29467E@microsoft.com...

>> hii alll, actualy i have a 4 HD with 500Gb for each one, but i made a big

>> mistake by make the primary partition size 20GB, and as you all know this

>> storage is not enough for windows vista ultimate 64BIT and it's ubdate,

>> SO

>> how i can resize the primary partition to make it more bigger WITHOUT

>> FORMATING, or losing the data in this partition

>> ???????????????????????????????????????

>

[Guest Juergen Kluth]

Re: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!!

 

Hi,

you can do it with "gparted"

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

jk

[Guest Gao linda]

RE: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!! - shate

 

RE: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!! - shate

 

You can try the DIsk Management of Windows Vista. It has a nifty utility to "shrink" or "expand" a partition. However, it does not work with FAT.

 

Partition software can also help you. Such as freeware EASEUS Partition Manager can support vista now. :)