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O.P. Vista Disc Management - Cant enlarge partition size
The other day i shrinked one of my 300GB harddrives into 2 150GBs. Then i decided that i wanted one of them to only be 75GB and the other 225GB so i shirnked one of them. But now i cannot enlarge the other one to make it 225GB :(
Is there anther porgram that can do this for me? or have i just lost 75GB :(

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RE: Vista Disc Management - Cant enlarge partition size
While I'm not entirely sure if it can do what you want, I think it's worth to give GParted a try.
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11-18-2008 07:32 AM
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I dont get gParted. What one do i download? I downloaded the 0.3-9-4 version as a zip vile but i dont get what to do with the files :S
11-18-2008 07:37 AM
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RE: Vista Disc Management - Cant enlarge partition size
did you get it from here?
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou...&release_id=625947
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RE: Vista Disc Management - Cant enlarge partition size
Right, I should have been a bit clearer. Get the GParted Live .iso from there, burn it and boot from it.
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Right, I should have been a bit clearer. Get the GParted Live .iso from there, burn it and boot from it.
Ah that could be a problem at the minute considering that i have no discs to burn to:P Could i virtually mount it and boot from it? or not?
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RE: RE: Vista Disc Management - Cant enlarge partition size
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Right, I should have been a bit clearer. Get the GParted Live .iso from there, burn it and boot from it.
Ah that could be a problem at the minute considering that i have no discs to burn to:P Could i virtually mount it and boot from it? or not?
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The other day i shrinked one of my 300GB harddrives into 2 150GBs. Then i decided that i wanted one of them to only be 75GB and the other 225GB so i shirnked one of them. But now i cannot enlarge the other one to make it 225GB :(
Is there anther porgram that can do this for me? or have i just lost 75GB :(

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The reason is that partitions can't be split up and have to be sequential. If you look at the picture, the unallocated space is on the far right while the partition you want to resize is in the middle.

The solution is to get GParted (as everyone has said so far) and move the 150GB partition to the end of the disk, then expand it.

This post was edited on 11-19-2008 at 09:58 AM by segosa.
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