No free ones (partition managers), but some are quite cheap e.g. < $50 I think.
I have used them before very successfully. Partition Magic is the most well known an expensive. Myles. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Thursday, 19 November 2009 1:09 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] Vista to Windows 7 upgrade question Is there any reliable (and preferably free) drive partition utilities to shrink an existing partition moving files if needed? The Vista Administrative Tools offers to shrink the volume, but only to 3/4 its existing size even though its only half full, and has been defragged. Reason - this is my current plan: I have one partition, all drive C, and half is free, and could offload some data and shrink the existing partition to about 1/4 the exising size, create a new partition - Drive D for my Data, and another partition Drive E on which I could load Windows 7 64 bit and have a dual boot, which would access the same Data volume as Drive D. Unless the new Windows 7 boot parition has to be after the existing Vista one, in which case I just make it Boot-1 (Vista), Boot-2 (Windows 7), Data in that order. (For ,my PC the Windows 7 upgrade advisor suggests 64 bit has a slightly better match with hardware than 32 bit - ie fewer issues as all devices seem to have drivers - but I have to do a custom install like above) I saw others refer to having to fiddle to get D2007 debugger working on Windows 7 64 bit - what was the issue? Incidentally I also have an unused Vista Ultimate licence if anyone is interested, not sure if anyone wants these any more! (this is a different licence to the Vista Home premium I am currently using) John _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe Attention: This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not use, disclose, copy or distribute it, other than to return it to us with your confirmation that it has been deleted from your system. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
