Partitions!

Hello,

Here's a noobian question: how can I extend my C: Local Disk partition in Vista? I've got around 70 GB split off as local disk on a 320 GB HDD, but now I want more space. I've cleared off a few GBs from the rest of my 320. Anyway I can combine that to my primary volume?

Thanks

 

get the gparted live cd. it's really easy.

 

Can't you do that in 'Disk Management'?

 

You might need to buy partition magic or some other commercial solution if you've used ntfs

 

Nah... there are a number of free partitioning programs which should be able to do what's required (if it can't be done in Disk Management).
Partition Logic is one which is worth trying...

 

Disk Management won't allow me to expand the primary partition. It can expand other partitions, just not Local Disk.

 

you can't modify a mounted partition, and to be using windows you must have the windows partition mounted. you need to boot into another operating system (ie liveCD)

gparted can do ntfs, i've been modifying partition tables with it for the last two days.

 

Booting from the Windows DVD should let you resize the primary partition.

 

Will it, never seemed to be able to do this with XP hence why I always use partition magic.

 

diskpart may be able to sort you out, If I understand what you're after. And the best news is, you should already have it on your system.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../xp/all/proddocs/en-us/diskpart.mspx?mfr=true

edit: actually, re-reading, maybe it wouldn't work. Worth a try at any rate, what's the worst that could happen, other than hosing your entire system and losing all of your data.

 

That's because it wasn't in XP. One of Vista's (admittedly smaller) features is that the primary partition can be resized without having to purchase partition magic.

Or so I've heard anyway, I could actually be wrong, as I've never tried it myself.

 

OK thanks for the info, I'm still on XP, tried Vista but went back, might have to move over to Vista when SP1 comes out.