Just a guess -- a lot of times you can't move the beginning of a partition. So, even though you can resize D:, if it happens to start on the block following the end of C:, you might be stuck.
The only solution if this is the case is to create E: On Wednesday 27 September 2006 9:07 am, Evan Brown wrote: > Howdy > > I downloaded GParted to resize my 2 windows partitions. I have a laptop > that I use for developement and it has 2 partitions C: is 20 gigs, D: is > 30 gigs. When I originally set them up I figured 20 gigs for software > was fine but after loading Visual Studio 2005 and keeping 6 plus all > MSDN libraries etc etc and a few other programs that I need I'm down to > about a gig. The beta patch for VS 2005 yesterday and I was trying to > install it and I ran outta disk room so I need more space. The other > partition has 18 gig free so I figured I'd move them around with > GParted. This morning I attempted to do so and had some troubles, I can > resize my D: partition and make it smaller, giving me unallocated space, > I can format that new space into an ntfs partition, what I can't do is > make my C: any bigger, it won't let me grow it at all. Do I have to > resize the D: and actually apply the changes and then reboot and then > use GParted again to resize after the drives have actually been resized. > I didn't want to test that theory so I didn't apply any of the changes > at all, rebooted back into Win XP and decided to write this mail. Any > help would be awesome. > > Evan > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
