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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 |
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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….. I've used Partition Magic to resize partitions. In that vernacular, I think I had to Move and Resize D, then Resize C to expand into the newly unallocated space. The lingo may differ in Easus. You've likely been warned to backup your partitions before you start messing with them. Heed that warning. |
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Grinder wrote:
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….. I've used Partition Magic to resize partitions. In that vernacular, I think I had to Move and Resize D, then Resize C to expand into the newly unallocated space. The lingo may differ in Easus. You've likely been warned to backup your partitions before you start messing with them. Heed that warning. I agree about the backups being done first. With that said I usually run JKDefrag http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/ along with the options -a 5 -u DisableDefaults prior to making any partition changes. True the program will seem to crawl when it runs as it's having to do more file shuffling than a routine defrag but it will compact more of the files. This in turns frees up more space for moving the partitions around. As already mentioned, with no unused partition space to play around with you do need to first shrink a partition before you try to enlarge another one. It has to have some place to expand into. I like the EASUS Partition Manager, especially it's visual graphics making it easy to see where the partitions relate to each other and any possible unused space on the drive. |
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On May 1, 10:08*pm, Grinder wrote:
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….. I've used Partition Magic to resize partitions. *In that vernacular, I think I had to Move and Resize D, then Resize C to expand into the newly unallocated space. *The lingo may differ in Easus. You've likely been warned to backup your partitions before you start messing with them. *Heed that warning. Hmm that's what Easus is talking about also, back up first before doing any modification but do we have to first reduce the partition size of the D then correspondingly increase the size of C? From what you implied the act of resizing is just to compress the file space of the used space so that theempty space is enlarged? Does it have any undesirable side effect on the PC perfformance general aside from HDD modification? |
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On May 2, 12:09*am, "GlowingBlueMist" wrote:
Grinder wrote: 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….. I've used Partition Magic to resize partitions. *In that vernacular, I think I had to Move and Resize D, then Resize C to expand into the newly unallocated space. *The lingo may differ in Easus. You've likely been warned to backup your partitions before you start messing with them. *Heed that warning. I agree about the backups being done first. *With that said I usually run JKDefraghttp://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/along with the options -a 5 -u DisableDefaults prior to making any partition changes. *True the program will seem to crawl when it runs as it's having to do more file shuffling than a routine defrag but it will compact more of the files. *This in turns frees up more space for moving the partitions around. As already mentioned, with no unused partition space to play around with you do need to first shrink a partition before you try to enlarge another one.. It has to have some place to expand into. I like the EASUS Partition Manager, especially it's visual graphics making it easy to see where the partitions relate to each other and any possible unused space on the drive.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hmm ....Can we compare the graphically the partitioned hard drive into a pie sliced 'virtually' in three areas; the C drive space( with its used and free space), recovery area( with used and free space) and the D drive ( again with its available used and free space) that is if you move one area then the other side will follow... ? Or is there a better graphic explanation on the mechanics of resizing? |
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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. |
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Roy wrote:
On May 1, 10:08 pm, Grinder wrote: 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….. I've used Partition Magic to resize partitions. In that vernacular, I think I had to Move and Resize D, then Resize C to expand into the newly unallocated space. The lingo may differ in Easus. You've likely been warned to backup your partitions before you start messing with them. Heed that warning. Hmm that's what Easus is talking about also, back up first before doing any modification but do we have to first reduce the partition size of the D then correspondingly increase the size of C? Yes you will resize *and* move D. Specifically, you will be moving the start of the D partition back by the amount you will ultimately want to add to C. D will, of course, have to be resized proportional to how far back you move it. From what you implied the act of resizing is just to compress the file space of the used space so that theempty space is enlarged? Yeah, I guess. Compress doesn't really seem like the right word though. Does it have any undesirable side effect on the PC perfformance general aside from HDD modification? If you were using D as a scratch drive, say for Photoshop, I suppose reducing its size could have a performance impact. Presumably, though, you'll benefit from the extra space on your system (C) drive. GBM makes a good recommendation: Defragment your drive before the repartioning. Also, don't cross your fingers and proceed without backing up--it will bit you in the ASPI. |
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On May 2, 7:20*am, 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. Thanks I will try that one on that pc after I have done the necessary back ups. |
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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. |
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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... |
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