It appears that I've made a stupid mistake. I have an ICY dock that holds three HDDs. I only operate two of the drives at once. One for the OS and the second is partitioned so one partition is for the pagefile and the other partition is for file storage and data backups.
Here's my problem: When I shutdown and then swap out my Win 7 Pro HDD for my Win 8 Pro HDD. When Win 8 Pro boots it's been trying to do a repair that it fails on (no options work accept a image restore from a backup using Acronis). I believe this is do to an over site on my part as the second HDD that has the pagfile partition isn't big enough to store a pagefile for both Win 7 Pro and Win 8 Pro and the OS's are different enough they cannot share the same pagefile (my bad idea) even though I have it set to the same size in both OS's.
I would think the only way to fix this would be to increase the size of the partition on the HDD that has the pagefile partition(s). What program do you recommend that I can make this change with that won't destroy my data on the other partition of this second HDD? It appears I can just use Win 7 Pro and Disk Management to shrink and expand partitions as I need.
I find it interesting that when I swap back to Win 7 Pro it catches this and runs checkdisk on the pagefile partition and the problem is simply solved. However, when I go the other way Win 8 Pro tries to repair and it cannot with any option. I restore from an image file.
Here's my problem: When I shutdown and then swap out my Win 7 Pro HDD for my Win 8 Pro HDD. When Win 8 Pro boots it's been trying to do a repair that it fails on (no options work accept a image restore from a backup using Acronis). I believe this is do to an over site on my part as the second HDD that has the pagfile partition isn't big enough to store a pagefile for both Win 7 Pro and Win 8 Pro and the OS's are different enough they cannot share the same pagefile (my bad idea) even though I have it set to the same size in both OS's.
I would think the only way to fix this would be to increase the size of the partition on the HDD that has the pagefile partition(s). What program do you recommend that I can make this change with that won't destroy my data on the other partition of this second HDD? It appears I can just use Win 7 Pro and Disk Management to shrink and expand partitions as I need.
I find it interesting that when I swap back to Win 7 Pro it catches this and runs checkdisk on the pagefile partition and the problem is simply solved. However, when I go the other way Win 8 Pro tries to repair and it cannot with any option. I restore from an image file.
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