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Can't extend my Vista Partition
I have 2 hard drives with a total of 9 partitions in my machine.
On the first Hard drive I have XP Pro installed in the first partition of 135Gigs. Vista is installed in the second partition of 55 Gigs. I am running a dual boot machine with no problems, and I am using the Vista OS more as time goes by. I have 60 Gigs of free space on the XP partition and I am down to 10 Gigs of free space on the Vista partition. I want to shrink the XP partition and extend the Vista Partition by about 30 Gigs. I can quite easily shrink the XP Partition with Windows Disk Management console in Vista, but it will not allow me to use the then unallocated 30 Gigs to extend the Vista partition. The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Amir |
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Can't extend my Vista Partition
If your Vista partition is to the right of the XP partition, then you won't
be able to extend it. You can only extend a partition to unallocated space on the right. The space that you claimed back from your XP partition would be to the left of the Vista partition. Avoid Partition Magic with Vista. It will cause problems. -- Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-) MVP Windows Shell/User "Amir Facade" wrote in message ... I have 2 hard drives with a total of 9 partitions in my machine. On the first Hard drive I have XP Pro installed in the first partition of 135Gigs. Vista is installed in the second partition of 55 Gigs. I am running a dual boot machine with no problems, and I am using the Vista OS more as time goes by. I have 60 Gigs of free space on the XP partition and I am down to 10 Gigs of free space on the Vista partition. I want to shrink the XP partition and extend the Vista Partition by about 30 Gigs. I can quite easily shrink the XP Partition with Windows Disk Management console in Vista, but it will not allow me to use the then unallocated 30 Gigs to extend the Vista partition. The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Amir |
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Can't extend my Vista Partition
I've done many resizings and such with that tool, always with positive
results. The only thing to beware is that I believe you can only reallocate space from right to left. I imaging it has to do with the order stuff is held on a partition - at the beginning. Robert Firth http://www.winvistainfo.org "Amir Facade" wrote in message ... I have 2 hard drives with a total of 9 partitions in my machine. On the first Hard drive I have XP Pro installed in the first partition of 135Gigs. Vista is installed in the second partition of 55 Gigs. I am running a dual boot machine with no problems, and I am using the Vista OS more as time goes by. I have 60 Gigs of free space on the XP partition and I am down to 10 Gigs of free space on the Vista partition. I want to shrink the XP partition and extend the Vista Partition by about 30 Gigs. I can quite easily shrink the XP Partition with Windows Disk Management console in Vista, but it will not allow me to use the then unallocated 30 Gigs to extend the Vista partition. The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Amir |
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Can't extend my Vista Partition
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:08:49 -0400, Amir Facade wrote:
I have 2 hard drives with a total of 9 partitions in my machine. On the first Hard drive I have XP Pro installed in the first partition of 135Gigs. Vista is installed in the second partition of 55 Gigs. I am running a dual boot machine with no problems, and I am using the Vista OS more as time goes by. I have 60 Gigs of free space on the XP partition and I am down to 10 Gigs of free space on the Vista partition. I want to shrink the XP partition and extend the Vista Partition by about 30 Gigs. I can quite easily shrink the XP Partition with Windows Disk Management console in Vista, but it will not allow me to use the then unallocated 30 Gigs to extend the Vista partition. The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Amir An intelligent utility will not attempt to resize a mounted partition. Suggest you try the Gparted Live CD. |
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Can't extend my Vista Partition
I would just use one of the Windows specific utilities.
-- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) "ray" wrote in message news On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:08:49 -0400, Amir Facade wrote: I have 2 hard drives with a total of 9 partitions in my machine. On the first Hard drive I have XP Pro installed in the first partition of 135Gigs. Vista is installed in the second partition of 55 Gigs. I am running a dual boot machine with no problems, and I am using the Vista OS more as time goes by. I have 60 Gigs of free space on the XP partition and I am down to 10 Gigs of free space on the Vista partition. I want to shrink the XP partition and extend the Vista Partition by about 30 Gigs. I can quite easily shrink the XP Partition with Windows Disk Management console in Vista, but it will not allow me to use the then unallocated 30 Gigs to extend the Vista partition. The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Amir An intelligent utility will not attempt to resize a mounted partition. Suggest you try the Gparted Live CD. |
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Can't extend my Vista Partition
"Amir Facade" wrote
I have 2 hard drives with a total of 9 partitions in my machine. On the first Hard drive I have XP Pro installed in the first partition of 135Gigs. Vista is installed in the second partition of 55 Gigs. I am running a dual boot machine with no problems, and I am using the Vista OS more as time goes by. I have 60 Gigs of free space on the XP partition and I am down to 10 Gigs of free space on the Vista partition. I want to shrink the XP partition and extend the Vista Partition by about 30 Gigs. I can quite easily shrink the XP Partition with Windows Disk Management console in Vista, but it will not allow me to use the then unallocated 30 Gigs to extend the Vista partition. The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. Use a 3rd party utility to do this. Acronis Disk Director Suite version 10 works fine in Vista. Also BootIt NG from Terabyte Unlimited. Both offer trial versions. -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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Can't extend my Vista Partition
"Amir Facade" wrote in message
... I have 2 hard drives with a total of 9 partitions in my machine. On the first Hard drive I have XP Pro installed in the first partition of 135Gigs. Vista is installed in the second partition of 55 Gigs. I am running a dual boot machine with no problems, and I am using the Vista OS more as time goes by. I have 60 Gigs of free space on the XP partition and I am down to 10 Gigs of free space on the Vista partition. I want to shrink the XP partition and extend the Vista Partition by about 30 Gigs. I can quite easily shrink the XP Partition with Windows Disk Management console in Vista, but it will not allow me to use the then unallocated 30 Gigs to extend the Vista partition. The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Amir BootIT NG from Terrabyte will do what you want, [Never had an issue with PM with other M$ OS's prior to Vista though]. rgds Roberto |
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Can't extend my Vista Partition
After doing more research and finding some issues with every program
available(I know, probably mostly user error.) I decided to try gparted. Burned the cd and the user interface was pretty user friendly. I reduced the XP partition, expanded the logical partition(of which Vista was part 1 of 4) and expanded the Vista partition. It took about an hour and a half to run and when I rebooted it stated that I should restart with my Vista disk and do a "repair my computer".( I had seen this in the forums and was not alarmed) I did this in about 5 mins, it ran a check disk and restarted just fine. I checked my XP OS, and that too is working fine. Thanks for the all the suggestions and I hope this helps someone else. Amir "ray" wrote in message news On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:08:49 -0400, Amir Facade wrote: I have 2 hard drives with a total of 9 partitions in my machine. On the first Hard drive I have XP Pro installed in the first partition of 135Gigs. Vista is installed in the second partition of 55 Gigs. I am running a dual boot machine with no problems, and I am using the Vista OS more as time goes by. I have 60 Gigs of free space on the XP partition and I am down to 10 Gigs of free space on the Vista partition. I want to shrink the XP partition and extend the Vista Partition by about 30 Gigs. I can quite easily shrink the XP Partition with Windows Disk Management console in Vista, but it will not allow me to use the then unallocated 30 Gigs to extend the Vista partition. The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Amir An intelligent utility will not attempt to resize a mounted partition. Suggest you try the Gparted Live CD. |
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Can't extend my Vista Partition
Something else of interest on this subject.
Now when I start my computer it sits on the first BIOS screen for about 20 seconds before it moves on. It used to sit there maybe 3 seconds, 5 max. What's with that? Are we having fun yet? Amir "Amir Facade" wrote in message ... After doing more research and finding some issues with every program available(I know, probably mostly user error.) I decided to try gparted. Burned the cd and the user interface was pretty user friendly. I reduced the XP partition, expanded the logical partition(of which Vista was part 1 of 4) and expanded the Vista partition. It took about an hour and a half to run and when I rebooted it stated that I should restart with my Vista disk and do a "repair my computer".( I had seen this in the forums and was not alarmed) I did this in about 5 mins, it ran a check disk and restarted just fine. I checked my XP OS, and that too is working fine. Thanks for the all the suggestions and I hope this helps someone else. Amir "ray" wrote in message news On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:08:49 -0400, Amir Facade wrote: I have 2 hard drives with a total of 9 partitions in my machine. On the first Hard drive I have XP Pro installed in the first partition of 135Gigs. Vista is installed in the second partition of 55 Gigs. I am running a dual boot machine with no problems, and I am using the Vista OS more as time goes by. I have 60 Gigs of free space on the XP partition and I am down to 10 Gigs of free space on the Vista partition. I want to shrink the XP partition and extend the Vista Partition by about 30 Gigs. I can quite easily shrink the XP Partition with Windows Disk Management console in Vista, but it will not allow me to use the then unallocated 30 Gigs to extend the Vista partition. The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Amir An intelligent utility will not attempt to resize a mounted partition. Suggest you try the Gparted Live CD. |
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Can't extend my Vista Partition
Amir Facade wrote:
Something else of interest on this subject. Now when I start my computer it sits on the first BIOS screen for about 20 seconds before it moves on. It used to sit there maybe 3 seconds, 5 max. What's with that? The word 'first' is vague. What appears on the screen during that time? Is it counting the RAM, autodetecting hard drives, or what? |
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