...see title.
Back up all your stuff, repartition, install your OS, copy all your stuff back.
Quote from: iago on April 22, 2007, 12:53:53 PM
Back up all your stuff, repartition, install your OS, copy all your stuff back.
uhm, that's way a lot of work, reinstalling OS.
there a way to do it now w/out Norton Partition Magic?
edit:hopefully this "Disk management" thing works out nicely
bah, I cant add the unallocated space to C: because C: is is after the unallocated space...or something it sounds like :(
.....so now I have 24 gig of random not used space, hmm
I've said this before in a thread a lot like this, but I've often heard it called "Partition Tragic." If you're going to use it, make sure everything important is backed up.
If you need them to be merged, the safest thing is to do what iago said.
partition magic doesnt work on vista
Quote from: CrAz3D on April 22, 2007, 01:58:39 PM
partition magic doesnt work on vista
lol, that's probably a good thing.
I thought there was a utility that ran before the OS booted, though? It's been a while since I've seen it.
GParted? (http://gparted.sourceforge.net iirc)
...there a nice way to do that on windows???
Quote from: CrAz3D on April 22, 2007, 03:03:54 PM
...there a nice way to do that on windows???
try compiling it on Windows?
Quote from: Ergot on April 22, 2007, 04:28:31 PM
Quote from: CrAz3D on April 22, 2007, 03:03:54 PM
...there a nice way to do that on windows???
try compiling it on Windows?
...that would mean I'd have to know how to do that, yeah?
Vista allows you to extend partitions natively, from Disk Management, if you have unallocated space. (IIRC)
Not sure if this is permitted on software striped or mirrored volumes (via dynamic disks), however.
Quote from: CrAz3D on April 22, 2007, 01:53:13 PM
bah, I cant add the unallocated space to C: because C: is is after the unallocated space...or something it sounds like :(
.....so now I have 24 gig of random not used space, hmm
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/9837/untitled1nq7.jpg)
Cant extend C:.
Would the free spacing being in front of C: be an issue?
No, the occupied space after C would be the issue.
Quote from: Newby on April 22, 2007, 11:50:52 PM
No, the occupied space after C would be the issue.
Why is that the issue?...I want to move the 24gb to after C:, no?
Ugh, why don't you make another partition?
I partition my hard drive so that my data and projects and stuff don't need to be transferred when I do things like reinstall my OS. I find it's almost universally better to keep my OS hard drive small and keep the rest of stuff elsewhere.
If you really want to have the space on your C drive, you can create a partition there, and then create an empty folder on C, then mount the drive in the emtpy NTFS folder. So for example, you could create c:\Space, and mount the partition there. I do that with my music. That way I can have music in my c:\users\Rob\Roaming\Music\ folder but it's really on something like i:\. That way whenever I format I don't need to back up those files.
it looks like, for now, I'll just keep a blank partition for now...