Changing your Partition Size

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1. I would like to know what can be done to change the partition size of my
windows Vista32. In the past, I've used Partition Magic 8. It appears that
this tool no longer works, if Vista is installed. Can someone let me know?

2. Has anybody had experience using Ghost or Acronis True Image on a
partition that has Vista installed? I want to know if there are any
complications to using these imaging tools. Thanks
 
There is a very nice feature in vista that allows you to resize your
partitions.

Right click "Computer"
Select "Manage"

On the bar on the left, go to "Storage", "Disk Management"

There, you will find the partitions on your hard drive. You can right click
one of the partitions and choose to "shrink volume"

All kind of fun settings in there.
 
I suggest you defrag it first.

firth said:
There is a very nice feature in vista that allows you to resize your
partitions.

Right click "Computer"
Select "Manage"

On the bar on the left, go to "Storage", "Disk Management"

There, you will find the partitions on your hard drive. You can right
click
one of the partitions and choose to "shrink volume"

All kind of fun settings in there.
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Has anyone ever gotten the shrink option to work?
My desktop was not able to shrink any disks due to "unknown error", and my
laptop is now sitting there with the spinning cheerio...for the last 45
mins..the Logon Screensaver just crashed out...
 
I see some folks having issues. I'm not sure I trust this yet. I really
hope Partition Magic comes out with another version that Runs on Vista.
 
I've tried several times to shrink a partition, all drives defragged, both
in 32bit and 64bit Vista. Nothing happens at all, apart from the hourglass
sitting there for ages and ages.....then it either errors out or else
does....absolutely nothing!
Plenty of available space too. Oh well......
 
1. I would like to know what can be done to change the partition size of my
windows Vista32. In the past, I've used Partition Magic 8. It appears that
this tool no longer works, if Vista is installed. Can someone let me know?
Click to expand...

ntfsresize, part of the ntfsprogs package.
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

Oh wait, I'm on a MS newsgroup...
 
1. I would like to know what can be done to change the partition size of my
windows Vista32. In the past, I've used Partition Magic 8. It appears that
this tool no longer works, if Vista is installed. Can someone let me know?
Click to expand...

Works fine for me, but I've only tried it from a clean boot to DOS.
 
Just boot from your PartitionMagic Disc and use it. It loads some sort of
DOS and then gives you basically the same menu as in Windows. It's much
faster this way, no need for system boots.
 
2. Has anybody had experience using Ghost or Acronis True Image on a
partition that has Vista installed? I want to know if there are any
complications to using these imaging tools. Thanks
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Make sure you do not format the patrition with acronis - use Windows setup
or a microsoft utility to format. There are known issues with Vista where
installing to a drive formatted using Acronis will cause a slow and painful
death.

- JB

Vista Support FAQ
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
Hi!

Here my experience concerning Ghost.

I use Ghost 2003 which is included in Ghost 10.0.
So, to copy or restore a disk or a partition, I use DOS.
I have 2 physical disks and only one partition on each disk.
I take an image of my C: drive (where Windows XP is installed) on the first
disk to the second disk.
I install Windows Vista on the C: drive with a clean install and it works
fine.
I take an image of my C: drive (where Windows Vista is now installed) on the
first disk to the second disk.

To return to Windows XP, I restore the Windows XP image to my C: drive, I
start Windows XP and it works fine.
But, when I return to Windows Vista, I restore the Windows Vista image to my
C: drive, I restart from the C: drive and I get this message :

Windows Boot manager . . . did not start correctly.
File : \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Status : 0XC0000000E
Info : the selected entry could not be located because the application
is missing or corrupted
Restart with disk and recover

and Windows Vista does not work.
It seems that Windows Vista does not find the partition.

So, I restart with the original DVD Windows Vista.
There is a repair tool. I execute it.
I restart from the C: drive and Windows Vista starts correctly.

So each time I restore the Windows Vista image, I have to use first the
repair tool on the Windows Vista DVD.
But, after, Windows Vista works very well.

J'adore Windows Vista.

Bonne journée! Roger
 
Zack said:
Has anyone ever gotten the shrink option to work?
My desktop was not able to shrink any disks due to "unknown error", and
my laptop is now sitting there with the spinning cheerio...for the last
45 mins..the Logon Screensaver just crashed out...
Click to expand...

Yes it worked for me without a problem and was remarkably fast doing it too.
 
You can run Partition Magic from the CD. Works fine unless you have a large
number of partitions.
 
I suspect you need to turn off anything that has a scanning engine. Better
yet, try in a clean boot environment.
 
I'm not aware that you can boot from the PM disk.
In-fact, my PM was downloaded from the company many years ago in a zip
format that was expanded to a CD. It did not come in an ISO format (I will
double check everything).
 
That is interesting...thanks for letting me know. And all the time, I
thought NTFS = NTFS.
Go figure.
 
That is very interesting. Thanks for your detail explanation. These image
tools are suppose to take a bit by bit copy of data to create the image.
Thanks again.
 
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