re: Resizing XP and Vista partitions on a single SATA Hard Drive
Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 5:30 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by alex
(1928 messages posted)
Partitioning NTFS using PM could be dangerous.Why don't use Disk Management?How big
are these parts?Since you are altering XP part boot into Vista and use Disk Management.But
backup your files just in case.
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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