Been there, there's one solution using Gparted:
1) hook up 2nd hdd (ide|usb|firewire)
2) mount 2nd hdd on e.g. /mnt/copydrv
3) rsync -av <d-drive-mountpoint>/ /mnt/copydrv
don't omit that last "/"
4) delete <d-drive>
5) resize <c-drive>
6) create & format new <d-drive>
7) rsync -av /mnt/copydrv/ <d-drive-mountpoint>/
don't omit that last "/"
hth,
Hendrik Schaink
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
>
>
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