I just looked at the partimage site and it says the NTFS is experimental, does anyone have experience using it with NTFS? Cuz I would totally do that.
Evan Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Of course, you can always make an image of D with partimage, delete D:, > resize C:, then create a new partition for D, then re-image that > partition from your backup. It helps if you defrag D before imaging. > > Instead of partimage, I have had good luck with dd_rhelp (a front end > for dd_rescue). This takes longer as it copies empty space as well, but > it may be more reliable. > > Of course, I can make no assurances that you will not will not toast > your D drive. > > > Evan Brown wrote: > >> That's exactly the case, C: butts up against D: who leaves unpartitioned >> space to just hang around in there when they create their partitions. >> Creating E: is not an option as the patch that I need to install will >> only install to the drive that I have VS 2005 on which is C: . I may >> have to uninstall VS 2005 and install it on the D: drive I guess if I >> can't resize C: which kinda sucks. >> >> Evan >> >> Nick Wiltshire wrote: >> >>> 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
