re: Resizing XP and Vista partitions on a single SATA Hard Drive
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Yodha
(40 messages posted)
Why dont u just image ur partitions and then delete and reformat both partitions
according 2 ur wishes..then re-install the images???????????
Hint.....acronis
On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 7:02 am, Richard W. Kutnick wrote:
>I have 1 SATA HD, 2 partitions dual boot (XP & Vista). Can I boot Partition Magic
>8.0 with the CD (to DOS) and shrink the XP partition as well as enlarge the Vista
>partition (with the space XP has given up)? If not, how can I accomplish this safely?
>I DID try to boot with the Gparted Live CD (the last two verions, in fact), but
I
>received a loopback error on both of them (something to do with the location of
gparted.exe--not
>sure why this did not work!). I have seen the program Partition Logic, but am not
>sure if this will work. Others have suggested Diskpart.exe. Still others have mentioned
>Acronis Disk Director. Bottom line is that I am totally confused what to do to accomplish
>my goal, so I am asking here where the PC brains hang out!! So, does anyone have
>any PERSONAL experience with resizing XP/Vista partitions without trashing their
>PCs? Please help, and thanks in advance!!!!!
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