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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: shouvik on September 20, 2005, 04:19:07 AM

Title: resize drives
Post by: shouvik on September 20, 2005, 04:19:07 AM

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i HAVE 2.1 gb h DISK

WITH

C: drive = 1000 mb
d: drive = 1000 mb


Now i have some important data about 300 mb in drive d: which i can not
delete.

Now i want to increase the size of c: to 1400 MB and decrease the size of
d: to 600 mb.

I went to fdisk

and it said "you can not delete primary partition when extended partition
exists."

I moved the 300 mb important data to C:

and if i now delete d:, then its ok.

but i can't delete C: now to resize it because c: contains the important data

but how to make the resizing? as described earlier.

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: Raptor on September 20, 2005, 04:41:40 AM

Try using a program such as Partition Magic instead.

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: vibhor_agarwalin on September 20, 2005, 05:06:37 AM

There is always a risk element in these programs.

The sure shot way, if you can afford, is reformatting.

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: shouvik on September 20, 2005, 05:13:08 PM

 Raptor:

I downloaded partition magic from here (http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html)

It was a  long download (22.7 MB)

After downloading when i clicked on the setup.exe file,

I got this message:


"Error reading setup initialization file"

Is there any other shorter download?

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: vibhor_agarwalin on September 20, 2005, 10:56:08 PM

Try redownloading, I think it got corrupted midway.

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: shouvik on September 20, 2005, 11:25:04 PM

Hi it is very large in size and almost took two hours to download

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: vibhor_agarwalin on September 20, 2005, 11:43:58 PM

I can reduce it to 10 mins.

Use some download accelerators like DAP.

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: shouvik on September 21, 2005, 10:03:24 PM

AGAIN DOWNLOADED AND AGAIN THE SAME PROBLEM

:-/  :-/

[size=18]This time downloaded with DAP[/size][/b][/color]

:-/

:-[

>:(

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: Raptor on September 22, 2005, 08:18:48 AM

Installer is most likely corrupted. Don't use download accelerators.

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: GX1_Man on September 22, 2005, 06:49:33 PM

Quote

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i HAVE 2.1 gb h DISK

WITH

C: drive = 1000 mb
d: drive = 1000 mb


Now i have some important data about 300 mb in drive d: which i can not
delete.

Now i want to increase the size of c: to 1400 MB and decrease the size of
d: to 600 mb.

I went to fdisk

and it said "you can not delete primary partition when extended partition
exists."

I moved the 300 mb important data to C:

and if i now delete d:, then its ok.

but i can't delete C: now to resize it because c: contains the important data

but how to make the resizing? as described earlier.

Combining important data and resizing drives in the same sentence is not the wisest approach, especially with a trial version of anything. BACK UP THAT DATA FIRST! Then you can play all you want.

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: shouvik on September 23, 2005, 07:04:26 PM

That means i cannot do anything else without using [size=24]fdisk [/size]again?

Title: Re: resize drives
Post by: GX1_Man on September 23, 2005, 10:58:20 PM

You can try anything without fdisk, but backing up your data is a must first. Fdisk is the easiest solution, and you have all the tools for this already.