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Resizing a partition?

Viper87227

Viper87227

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I made a booboo when I partitioned one of my drives, i made the OS portion 5GB instead of 10GB. Now i find myself so low on space I have to use a seperate drive for the swap file. I dont want to reistall windows, or format, i just want to resize the partition. I know partition magic can do it, but I also dont want to pay any money, as i do not ahve any to pay. Any other ways to go about solving the matter?
 
well provided the swapfile is indeed gone from that partition (and none remains)

use diskpart.exe at the commandline
Syntax
How to Use Diskpart.exe to Extend a Data Volume

it will grow a partition into unallocated space, but that is about as far as resizing goes

PS when your done, put at least a little pagefile back on the OS partition
Virtual Memory in Windows XP
Problems with Virtual Memory
........
The page file has been put on a different drive without leaving a minimal amount on C:.
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Multiple Pagefiles
\(hmm images are down and its a new format, but the article remains)
 
i think I am doing this wrong...

I type in "extend [disk=c] (also tried 2 for volume 2) [noerr]" and I get "the arguements you specified for the commadn are not valid" Hmm. I know I have no paging file on C:, but it is the system drive, does that man a difference?
 
Code: 
DISKPART>
DISKPART> SELECT DISK = 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk
DISKPART> SELECT PARTITION = 1
Partition 1 is now selected
DISKPART> extend = 10000

try that

disk zero is the first disk listed in Disk Management
there is however no "zero" partition, so starting with the first partition as counted from the disk focus is on
there must be unallocated space adjecent to the partition to expand into

see the html in the download
like Unix commandline arguements [ ] or < > arent actually typed

so extend [size=n] [disk=n] [noerr]

Code: 
 DISKPART> extend size=666666 disk=0 noerr
 
did so, i got greenlights up until the extend thing...in which i got the same argument not valid crapper
 
ok, did the stuff in the edit:

"DiskPari failed to extend the volume. Please make sure the volum is valid for extending"
 
hmmm...

sorry, my mistake you where right about the system partition being a limitation
I get around that by doing this from a parallel install

The following are the requirements for the extend command:

* The volume must be formatted with the NTFS file system.
* For Basic volumes, the unallocated space for the extension must be the next contiguous space on the same disk.
* For Dynamic Volumes, the unallocated space can be any empty space on any Dynamic disk on the system.
* Only the extension of data volumes are supported. System or boot volumes may be blocked from being extended, and you may receive the following error:
Diskpart failed to extend the volume. Please make sure the volume is valid for extending
* You cannot extend the partition if the system page file is located on the partition. Move the page file to a partition that you do not wish to extend.
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I remembered the pagefile part but spaced the system and boot limitations
 
Ice Czar said:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

there is a freeware Partition Resizer on the Ultimate Boot CD, but Ive never used it and dont know what limitations it might have

and a direct link to the site > http://www.columbianet.gr/~zeleps/index.html
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I gave this program a look, and it seems a bit risky. I get warning on there webpage, warnings installing it, and I got 3 warnings before I could even start the program all about how there not responable if the program fucks it your disks. There were at least 2 more before I got to a point where I could actualyl do some resizing. Makes me nervous, they must have alot of comlpaints about it. On the bring side, a quick search on download.com found a whole list of programs that will do what I need. I feel like such an ass now, knowing I coudl have done all this myself. Thanks for the help tho Czar.

And since your here, and seem to know waht your talking about, any idea how I can move the swapfile to my now large enough windows partition?
 
You know, I have tried mulitle programs now, and none of them let me change the C: drive size. It appeard to work, then just didnt change it. I always though I was doing something wrong, but then I tried resizing a different partition, and it worked. Maybe you cant format your system partition, in which case I have to rezie my other partition to create free space, then format, delete the current partiion, and reistall. Agree? I dont want to do all that.
 
Better yet, download sysresccd www.sysresccd.org

Burn the ISO to a CD and boot to it.

Once you get to the linux command prompt run "run_qtparted" without the quotes.

You'll get a graphical partition editor much like partition magic but free.. The CD is packed with other useful tools too..

-scoob8000
 
I just love linux tools
I hadnt seen that one

Im sorry the only partition resizing I do is either diskpart.exe
(it does alot more than just resizing) or Partition Magic
you can resize the system partition with it (or offset\move it)
but its done in DOS on a reboot

to relocate the swapfile
RClick My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Performance Options > Change > select drives\partitions and sizes you want

review Multiple pagefiles link above and Virtual memory in XP
 
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