Resizing partitions

[Pringle]

Well it's not working at all. I'm considering moving FS onto my boot partition (Saving the gauges, aircraft and scenery files). What an arse...

[DelP]

Hi Tom,

I don't know about Partition Magic..I've used Acronis Partition Expert for years (no advertising implied) as a boot disc and can easily re-size my OS partition..

You didn't mention your HD size?

Derek

[Pringle]

I know this will sound daft but I think it's 80 gig (I did have the full spec but lost it :redface: ). I'll try this other software mentioned and let you know how I get on. Cheers Derek

[Pringle]

cheers derek, worked perfectly! Think I shall keep this little chap!

[DelP]

Hi Tom,

Glad to hear it worked..don't forget it's best to clear out the crap and defrag a couple of times before changing the partitions..

ATB,

Derek

[petermcleland]

I just bought the product yesterday and expanded my OS partition C: into E: and it was a tense time :think: However, I have to report that it went extremely well...First attempt failed during the boot time procedure and no changes were made...Tried again and it worked perfectly with no hitches and my C: drive was doubled in size with the expansion moving into E: (D: is a CD drive). I was tense because my entire system is a RAID 0 Array and I just was not sure if this would affect the issue, but my fears were unfounded and I can report that the RAID 0 does not affect the issue at all.

One consequential effect of changing partitions that was revealed and I would like to report, is that BACKUP software is slightly affected in the following way:-

I keep two full backups of my entire system on two large external drives. One is a true Backup and the other is a Duplicate. The software I use for this is Retrospect by Dantz.

When I came to make the backup and duplicates after the partition changes, Retrospect reported that the C: and E: partitions were not selected...Further, when I went to select them I discovered that there were now two C: drives and two E: drives in the available list. Inspection of the properties of these revealed that the old smaller C: and the larger E: partitions were still listed along with the new ones of changed size. It only remained for me to right click on the old ones and select "Forget" and then to select the remaining C: and E: in the list to be backed up/duplicated.

I just thought I would report this in case others have similar cases.

The software by Acronis has had its name changed to "Disk Director Suite" and I find it to be well written software and recommend it for changing partition size...However, it has limited other use. I do not regret purchasing it because I too had made the error of making my OS partition too small originally at 10 GBs...I have now doubled it to 20 GBs and it is now running with 58% capacity free. The whole OS can start to slow down if it does not have at least 25% free.

One should bear in mind that the OS partition will gradually fill up, even though you religiously install programs to another partition...Some bits are often still installed to the OS partition and there are also things like "My Documents" and Restore System files etc which all add up over time :think:

[alemaobaiano]

I've used various versions of QParted to resize partitions, including OS disks, and never had a problem. Our IT techs swear by it too. It comes bundled with most Linux distros but it now has it's own live CD version. Burn the iso to a CD, boot from the CD and away you go. There's even a nice GUI if you don't want to play with the command line. You can copy whole partitions, resize, reformat and pretty much everything else.

The only type of partition I've never tried it on is FAT, but it works very well with NTFS partitions, as well as all varieties of Mac and Linux disks. Best of all, it's free

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