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Resizing XP and Vista partitions on a single SATA Hard Drive
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Resizing XP and Vista partitions on a single SATA Hard Drive
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 7:02 am
Posted by Richard W. Kutnick
(22 messages posted)
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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re: Resizing XP and Vista partitions on a single SATA Hard Drive
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 1:43 pm
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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re: Resizing XP and Vista partitions on a single SATA Hard Drive
Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 5:30 am
Posted by alex
(2071 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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re: Resizing XP and Vista partitions on a single SATA Hard Drive
Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 11:14 am
Posted by Richard W. Kutnick
(22 messages posted)
Unfortunately, while I CAN "shrink" the XP partition size within Vista Disk Managment,
I CANNOT take this regained space and place it into my Vista partition--the "expand"
button is greyed out! This is why I am asking what I can do about this on the Forum
here. I found out late yesterday, though, that Acronis Disk Director 10.0 has the
ability to perform this task, so I will try it out!!
On Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 5:30 am, alex wrote:
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>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.
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>
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