Making partition bigger

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When I copied my system to the new drive the result was a partition smaller
than the space I gave it to be in.

What's the best (safest and most reliable) way to expand the partition to
the rest of the space? (I don't see any point in making a whole new
partition in the small amount of free space.) Are any of the single purpose
expander/resizer utilities reliable?

Thanks
 
JimL said:
When I copied my system to the new drive the result was a partition smaller
than the space I gave it to be in.

What's the best (safest and most reliable) way to expand the partition to
the rest of the space? (I don't see any point in making a whole new
partition in the small amount of free space.) Are any of the single purpose
expander/resizer utilities reliable?

Thanks
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Using WinXP's native tools, there's no way to do this without
completely wiping the hard drive and starting afresh. It'd be a lot
quicker to use a 3rd party partitioning utility to resize the existing
partitions.

For a fully functional, free, 30-day evaluation version, BootItNG
can't be beat:

Terabyte Unlimited's BootItNG
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html


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Bruce Chambers said:
Using WinXP's native tools, there's no way to do this without
completely wiping the hard drive and starting afresh. It'd be a lot
quicker to use a 3rd party partitioning utility to resize the existing
partitions.

For a fully functional, free, 30-day evaluation version, BootItNG
can't be beat:

Terabyte Unlimited's BootItNG
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand
Russell
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I'll check it out.

Thanks
 
Antony said:
Hi..you can resize th epartition using norton partition magic pro...
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Depending on the version, and the size of your HD, yes as long as you
have space you can expand into (another partition willing to give up
some space or unpartitioned space). In fact, it says it can do that
right on their web page; can't read there but can waste time here?
 
can't read there but can waste time here?
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My question was "what is best and safest," asked where, assumedly, there are
those who know. A line in an advertisement tells me exactly nothing. If
you doubt that I have some Madoff stock to sell you.
 
Bruce Chambers said:
Using WinXP's native tools, there's no way to do this without
completely wiping the hard drive and starting afresh. It'd be a lot
quicker to use a 3rd party partitioning utility to resize the existing
partitions.

For a fully functional, free, 30-day evaluation version, BootItNG
can't be beat:

Terabyte Unlimited's BootItNG
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand
Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
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Thanks
 
JimL said:
My question was "what is best and safest," asked where, assumedly,
there are those who know. A line in an advertisement tells me
exactly nothing. If you doubt that I have some Madoff stock to sell
you.
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No said:
Hi..you can resize th epartition using norton partition magic pro...
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to which I responded with the above, and I stand by that. That question
and much more is covered off well in their features and capabilities
listings. PM is, IMO, the best program out for partition work right now.
Proper written attribution in a post keeps things a lot cleaner and if
it gets out of hand or misread, then that becomes more obvious too.
Here you completely snipped everything but one line of my response and
added your own, with zero attribution. So even the question you asked
wasn't present in your post.

No offense meant, but with proper contectualization and trimming/quoting
of messages to limit the display to the specific question and details of
your situation creates a much higher chance of getting the response you
need or at least someone may ask further clarification questions. Only
non-relevant information to your question should be trimmed; anything
pertinent to the question at hand should remain quoted.

And my sympathies if you have "Madoff" stock. I know, you were just
being facetious but ... you also seem to have taken offense, so I felt I
couldn't pass on it<g>.

You may wish to start a new thread (not a new post) to restate the
current question and the relevent information to go along with it. All
useful information seems to have fallen by the wayside due to the
trimming that was done. Most people don't re-assemble posts once marked
as read to pull the most meaningful data out of htem and then guess at
what the problem at hand is.

HTH,

Twayne`
 
JimL said:
My question was "what is best and safest," asked where, assumedly,
there are those who know. A line in an advertisement tells me
exactly nothing. If you doubt that I have some Madoff stock to sell
you.
Click to expand...

In my opinion, Partition Magic is about the most reliable and easiest to
use but it's not free. It does have a trial period though; they all do
AFAIK. There are also some freebies out there that seem to be decent
but I don't recommend them because I don't have any current knowledge
about them.

You haven't said so, but here I assume you mean for partition
management. No one suggested reading a line in an advertisement, but if
that's the way you consider their web sites when they have good support
and FAQs to use, more power to you. In general there is never a "best
and safest" for any application, but there will be some to stay away
from. What I find "best and safest" may not be the same as the next
person, nor will that person's be the same as another following person.
The thing to look for is whether they do what they say they'll do, are
reliable and stable, followed by ease of use and appreciation for bells
& whistels & whether you find them useful or not. I believe Acronis
makes a partition manager as do a few other companies such as BootItNG
and another that suddenly left my memory. . If you find something you
like but don't know the company or its reputation, a little research
might be in order, but even that's not hard once you get used to it.

HTH,

Twayne`
 
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