- Resizing partitions with Partition Magic
- Posted by Terry Pinnell on July 8th, 2003
I bought Partition Magic 7.0 a year or so ago, and set up 2 partitions
on each of my two identical HDs.
C: 11.7 GB 0.6 free (Main XP Home System)
D: 44.1 GB 28.4 free (Data)
E: 11.7 GB 4.6 free (Old XP Home system for emergency)
F: 44.1 GB 8.5 free (Backups)
My initial judgement was plainly a bit poor, so now I'd like to
resize, increasing C (and probably E for symmetry) and reducing D.
Will I find this straightforward please? Any snags to watch out for?
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Terry, West Sussex, UK
- Posted by John on July 8th, 2003
The functionality you need is there inside PartitionMagic (use the Resize
option), but as the other posters said, PM has been known to fail before
when doing this (I've had it happen to me). Make some backups.
"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@dial.pipexTHIS.com> wrote in message
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- Posted by Rod Speed on July 9th, 2003
John Lewis <john.dsl@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Nope, nothing surprising about it at all.
Even you should be able to use groups.google
and find examples of it doing that.
If its that crucial, Powerquest should have PM do
that before attempting to adjust the partition sizes.
Ditto.
The very safest way is to have a full image of the entire
physical drive that can be used if the brown stuff hits the fan.
True in spades of a full image of the entire physical
drive that can be used if the brown stuff hits the fan.
- Posted by Terry Pinnell on July 10th, 2003
"John" <knight_js.nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks for all the helpful replies. Proceeding with caution!
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Terry, West Sussex, UK
