Windows Resizing Partition

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  1. Stompy

    Stompy What's a Dremel?

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    Is there a way to resize a partition?

    On the PC i build for my uncle, it turns out 5gb isnt quite enough for windows, and it keeps complaining about lack of space. Is it possible to steal a gig from another partition and attach it to this one?
     
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  2. unrealhippie

    unrealhippie What's a Dremel?

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    partition manager would do it I believe.
     
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  3. padrejones2001

    padrejones2001 Puppy Love

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    Only with something like PartitionMagic.
     
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  4. yodasarmpit

    yodasarmpit Modder

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    Yeh, but like the other guys have said you will need a 3rd party app, like Partition Magic to do it.
     
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  5. Atomic

    Atomic Gerwaff

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    Yup is the be all and end all.

    Make sure you have v8 or above if your dealing with large disks tho (160GB+)
     
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  6. Stompy

    Stompy What's a Dremel?

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    Where can I get this from?

    All I can find on the Symantec website is a demo version that doesnt actually do anything
     
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  7. yodasarmpit

    yodasarmpit Modder

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    Unfortunatly there are very few free apps that do this, most you will need to pay for.
     
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    if you have a knoppix cd you can boot that up and use qtparted
    its a partition magic clone that i find works very well
     
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  9. Veer

    Veer What's a Dremel?

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    ms dos should be fine, prior you know the commands.
     
    Veer, 28 Feb 2005
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  10. tk421

    tk421 Idiot.

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    easier solution:

    mount the documents&settings folder to a seperate partition, and make a 2gb partition at the end of the drive (or better yet, on a 2nd drive) just for the swap file. windows itself only takes up about 3gb at most. the compaints are coming most likely from 2 places : temp intarweb files, and the swap file.
     
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