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Resizing Disk Partition
Roy wrote:
On May 2, 12:57 pm, kony wrote: On Fri, 01 May 2009 16:20:58 -0700, Andy wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2009 05:21:09 -0700 (PDT), Roy wrote: Hello guys I am planning to modify / resize both the C and D drive from 30/70 to 40/60. There is a 5 % of the C drive space taken by the recovery files. The HDD space is size is 100 Gig and the empty space is just barely 4 gigs for the C drive and would like to extend that by reducing the space of the D . Does anybody here have experienced in resizing partition with any partition tools like for example Easus partition master. ? The direction given by the user’s manual is just concise with no explanation aside from pulling the slider from either sides. Can somebody give me more explanation how does this work? I tested it but I can’t increase the size of the C drive by doing such….. TIA 1. Shrink D, freeing space to its right, or at the end of the disk. 2. Move the smaller D partition to the right, or to the end of the disk, creating unallocated space between C and D. 3. Expand C to the right, filling up the unallocated space between C and D. There is no need to free space to the right of D, towards the end of the disk. First shrink D freeing up space to it's left, which in operation means the partitioning program copies the data occupied in that area further towards the end of the drive, restructures it, and then decreases the size of the extended partition so there is unallocated space between the primary C partition and the beginning of the extended partition, then finally it can increase the size of the primary partition to include the unallocated space. Or to put it another way, there isn't much to explain when a program simplifies to the point of only having a slider, you just slide it to make C bigger and D smaller and it does the rest. The real question is when Roy tried to do it, what went wrong? There is a piece of the puzzle we don't have yet, did it create an error message or did it reduce the size of D but a second procedure is required to enlarge C or some other factor? Might it only be there was some button he had to click to apply the changes, or the system has to reboot to do it and the partitioning app can't recognize the drive controller during the reboot, before windows loads a driver, so it quits without doing anything? We need detail about exactly what happened.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks for that thoughtful explanation...That is what I am planning to do using the EASUS Partition master. My preliminary trial which I did but cancelled was when I slide the to the left the initial size free space increased without any indication what will be the resultling size after such move, If I slide from the right there is a change after but not before....this is kinda perplexing as that particular software don't have an explanation what does the initial and final size or there is a corresponsing free space that can be covered the C drive once I did the same thing after the D drive... The preinstalled partition for that PC was 30 gigs for the C which includes 5 gigs for the recovery and 70 gigs for the D drive if we consider that the 100 Gigs does not actually indicate the actual size as formatting will also cover considerable space making the resultihg size to be in the vicinity of 90 gigs only. Now my plan is to reduce the D drive to 40-50 and correspondlingly increase the C drive by the same amount. I am just worred that there might be some files or software that might be affected if I did such regardless if I do a back up of the drives... I would also like to hear inputs from people that have done this....preferably using the Easus partition master... I will be doing the resizing of that drive soon... Big catch 22 with resizing: Though most resizing utilities work without a problem...there is no guarantee of course...so all data must be backed up first. OTOH: If all data are backed up then there really isn't any need for resizing software as you can destructively repartition , then restore from backup. Since new drives cost so little now days, when I am faced with a situation such as yours I simply buy a larger drive...clone the old one to the new...and keep the old drive as a backup. Many HD mfg's even have cloning software |
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Resizing Disk Partition
philo wrote:
Since new drives cost so little now days, when I am faced with a situation such as yours I simply buy a larger drive...clone the old one to the new...and keep the old drive as a backup. Many HD mfg's even have cloning software That's the voice of reason. You can get a 160GB SATA2 for $60; an IDE or SATA1 for a bit less. Give your system the full 100GB to play in, and treat yourself to 160GB in which to put your pirated music and movies. |
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Resizing Disk Partition
Grinder wrote:
philo wrote: Since new drives cost so little now days, when I am faced with a situation such as yours I simply buy a larger drive...clone the old one to the new...and keep the old drive as a backup. Many HD mfg's even have cloning software That's the voice of reason. You can get a 160GB SATA2 for $60; an IDE or SATA1 for a bit less. Give your system the full 100GB to play in, and treat yourself to 160GB in which to put your pirated music and movies. Yep new drives are cheap all right. One thing I don't do is download pirated movies... they are so cheap to buy legally I see no reason for pirating them |
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Resizing Disk Partition
philo wrote:
Grinder wrote: philo wrote: Since new drives cost so little now days, when I am faced with a situation such as yours I simply buy a larger drive...clone the old one to the new...and keep the old drive as a backup. Many HD mfg's even have cloning software That's the voice of reason. You can get a 160GB SATA2 for $60; an IDE or SATA1 for a bit less. Give your system the full 100GB to play in, and treat yourself to 160GB in which to put your pirated music and movies. Yep new drives are cheap all right. One thing I don't do is download pirated movies... they are so cheap to buy legally I see no reason for pirating them Just a little ribbing there. I used to say "pr0n" instead of "pirated music," but that's bit too caustic. |
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On May 2, 3:56*am, philo wrote:
Roy wrote: On May 2, 12:57 pm, kony wrote: On Fri, 01 May 2009 16:20:58 -0700, Andy wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2009 05:21:09 -0700 (PDT), Roy wrote: Hello guys I am planning to modify / resize both the C and D drive from 30/70 to 40/60. There is a 5 % of the C drive space taken by the recovery files. The HDD space is size is 100 Gig and the empty space is just barely 4 gigs for the C drive and would like to extend that by reducing the space of the D . Does anybody here have experienced in resizing partition with any partition tools like *for example Easus partition master. ? The direction given by the user’s manual is *just concise with no explanation aside from *pulling the slider *from either sides. Can somebody give me more explanation how does this work? I tested *it but I can’t increase the size of the C drive by doing such….. TIA 1. Shrink D, freeing space to its right, or at the end of the disk. 2. Move the smaller D partition to the right, or to the end of the disk, creating unallocated space between C and D. 3. Expand C to the right, filling up the unallocated space between C and D. There is no need to free space to the right of D, towards the end of the disk. First shrink D freeing up space to it's left, which in operation means the partitioning program copies the data occupied in that area further towards the end of the drive, restructures it, and then decreases the size of the extended partition so there is unallocated space between the primary C partition and the beginning of the extended partition, then finally it can increase the size of the primary partition to include the unallocated space. Or to put it another way, there isn't much to explain when a program simplifies to the point of only having a slider, you just slide it to make C bigger and D smaller and it does the rest. *The real question is when Roy tried to do it, what went wrong? *There is a piece of the puzzle we don't have yet, did it create an error message or did it reduce the size of D but a second procedure is required to enlarge C or some other factor? *Might it only be there was some button he had to click to apply the changes, or the system has to reboot to do it and the partitioning app can't recognize the drive controller during the reboot, before windows loads a driver, so it quits without doing anything? *We need detail about exactly what happened.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks for that thoughtful explanation...That is what I am planning to do using the EASUS Partition master. My preliminary trial which I did *but cancelled was when I slide the *to the left the initial size free space increased without any indication what will be the resultling size after such move, If I slide from the right there is a change after but not before....this is kinda perplexing as that particular software don't have an explanation what does the initial and final size or *there is a corresponsing free space that can be covered the C drive once I did the same thing after the D drive... The preinstalled partition for that PC *was *30 gigs for the *C which includes 5 gigs for the recovery and 70 gigs for the D drive if we consider that the 100 Gigs does not actually indicate the actual size as formatting will also cover considerable space making the resultihg size to be in the vicinity of 90 gigs only. Now my plan is to reduce the D drive to 40-50 and correspondlingly increase the C drive by the same amount. I am just worred that there might be some files or software that might be affected if I did such regardless if I do *a back up of the drives... I would also like to hear inputs from people that have done this....preferably using the Easus *partition master... I will be doing the resizing of that drive soon... Big catch 22 with resizing: Though most resizing utilities work without a problem...there is no guarantee of course...so all data must be backed up first. OTOH: If all data are backed up then there really isn't any need for resizing software as you can destructively repartition , then restore from backup. Since new drives cost so little now days, when I am faced with a situation such as yours I simply buy a larger drive...clone the old one to the new...and keep the old drive as a backup. Many HD mfg's even have cloning software- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks for that... Well recently I got a new hard drive-320 G to replace the 100 Gig. Still trying to find a way to get back the data from that old drive. Some hardware of my PC is not working anymore such as the audio port replicator..... |
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