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Resizing partitions with Partition Magic
I bought Partition Magic 7.0 a year or so ago, and set up 2 partitions
on each of my two identical HDs. C: 11.7 GB 0.6 free (Main XP Home System) D: 44.1 GB 28.4 free (Data) E: 11.7 GB 4.6 free (Old XP Home system for emergency) F: 44.1 GB 8.5 free (Backups) My initial judgement was plainly a bit poor, so now I'd like to resize, increasing C (and probably E for symmetry) and reducing D. Will I find this straightforward please? Any snags to watch out for? -- Terry, West Sussex, UK |
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The functionality you need is there inside PartitionMagic (use the Resize option), but as the other posters said, PM has been known to fail before when doing this (I've had it happen to me). Make some backups. "Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... I bought Partition Magic 7.0 a year or so ago, and set up 2 partitions on each of my two identical HDs. C: 11.7 GB 0.6 free (Main XP Home System) D: 44.1 GB 28.4 free (Data) E: 11.7 GB 4.6 free (Old XP Home system for emergency) F: 44.1 GB 8.5 free (Backups) My initial judgement was plainly a bit poor, so now I'd like to resize, increasing C (and probably E for symmetry) and reducing D. Will I find this straightforward please? Any snags to watch out for? -- Terry, West Sussex, UK |
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John Lewis wrote in message ... Rod Speed wrote Terry Pinnell wrote I bought Partition Magic 7.0 a year or so ago, and set up 2 partitions on each of my two identical HDs. C: 11.7 GB 0.6 free (Main XP Home System) D: 44.1 GB 28.4 free (Data) E: 11.7 GB 4.6 free (Old XP Home system for emergency) F: 44.1 GB 8.5 free (Backups) My initial judgement was plainly a bit poor, so now I'd like to resize, increasing C (and probably E for symmetry) and reducing D. Will I find this straightforward please? You may well find that it bites you on the arse. Any snags to watch out for? Yep, you MUST make a full image of the entire drive BEFORE you attempt to do that. PM can bugger up the entire drive in the process. If you arent prepared to do that for some reason, at least backup all the stuff you will slash your wrists if you lose to more than one CDR even if you have to buy a CD burner to do that. Then at least if the brown stuff hits the fan rather spectacularly, as it often does with PM being used for that sort of thing, the worst you are up for is a very laborious completely clean reinstall etc. funny thing................. Nope, nothing surprising about it at all. I have used PM V4 thru V8 for regularly generating/resizing hard-disk partitions and have NEVER "buggered" up a disk or lost a partition. Even you should be able to use groups.google and find examples of it doing that. It is absolutely essential to run ScanDisk on all disk partitions BEFORE playing around with re-sizing partitions. If its that crucial, Powerquest should have PM do that before attempting to adjust the partition sizes. Also using the full surface check in ScanDisk is highly recommended. Ditto. And, if your disk has shown signs of any disk-flakiness in the past, do not attempt a re-partition. Better go buy a bigger disk and use PM to copy the partitions to it, while resizing them at the same time.. The very safest way of doing the actual re-size exercise is by executing the changes after booting your PC into Partition Magic with the Partition Magic rescue floppy disks.... just in case there is any problem (virus etc) in the XP operating system software. The very safest way is to have a full image of the entire physical drive that can be used if the brown stuff hits the fan. It will be a little slower than using the OS, since disk-acceleration is not available. By the way, there is an update to PM 7.01 on the Powerquest web-site. Download and install it, then create the 2 rescue floppies using the approprite selection under "Partition Magic 7.0 Tools". The update deals with issues other than re-sizing FAT partitions, but better be safe than sorry.......... True in spades of a full image of the entire physical drive that can be used if the brown stuff hits the fan. |
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"John" wrote:
The functionality you need is there inside PartitionMagic (use the Resize option), but as the other posters said, PM has been known to fail before when doing this (I've had it happen to me). Make some backups. Thanks for all the helpful replies. Proceeding with caution! -- Terry, West Sussex, UK |
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