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Windows Vista: what is a cheap but good repartition program for vista?
what is a cheap but good repartition program for vista?
by Rammstein420 - 8/6/08 2:58 PMI can't find any that work.
How extensive?
by Jimmy Greystone - 8/6/08 3:27 PM In reply to: what is a cheap but good repartition program for vista? by Rammstein420How extensive a list of features do you need? Like, do you need it to be non-destructive or does it not matter if you have to format and reinstall everything?
preferably not but either
by Rammstein420 - 8/6/08 5:27 PM In reply to: How extensive? by Jimmy Greystoneand i need top repartitiion
(NT) See the freeware application GParted.
by John.Wilkinson
- 8/6/08 5:44 PM
In reply to: preferably not but either by Rammstein420
HowTo for GParted
by Owyn - 8/9/08 4:45 AM In reply to: (NT) See the freeware application GParted. by John.Wilkinson
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/
Resizing using a LiveCD is IMHO the only safe way to repartition.
Be careful with GParted Live
by BigGuns149 - 8/10/08 11:50 PM In reply to: HowTo for GParted by OwynFor a long time I considered GParted a pretty safe utility, but I used it once to resize a NTFS partition and it caused chkdsk to have a fit with the drive. I have never lost any data with GParted yet, but I would never consider repartitioning a trivial exercise. I would still make sure to backup data just in case.
If you don't need
by Jimmy Greystone - 8/6/08 5:47 PM In reply to: preferably not but either by Rammstein420If you don't need a non-destructive partitioning program, you can't beat trusty old fdisk. Of course there's also the disk management thing built into Vista that should get the job done, so long as you aren't trying to wipe all partitions off of your boot drive.
For the most part though, all partitioning programs are the same. You've got your destructive partitioners a la fdisk, and your non-destructive ones like Partition Magic. The non-destructive ones of course are not guaranteed. I've had it happen to me once (fortunately on a brand new system, first time it had ever been turned on) where they screwed up mid-process and I lost everything. So, the important lesson to learn from this, is always, Always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS have a backup. The other moral of the story, is that there's really no such thing as top tier paritioning programs like there are for some other programs.
How do i use vista to put the hidden partition into the main
by Rammstein420 - 8/6/08 7:05 PM In reply to: If you don't need by Jimmy Greystonepartition. I deleted the partition thinking it would automaticly go into the main one but now I can't find the space that made up the other partition anywhere.
It's now raw...
by John.Wilkinson - 8/6/08 8:30 PM
In reply to: How do i use vista to put the hidden partition into the main by Rammstein420
You need to "extend" the "main" partition using the unallocated space using whatever tool you used to delete the partition.
John
I deleted it when i was reinstalling vista
by Rammstein420 - 8/6/08 8:36 PM In reply to: It's now raw... by John.Wilkinson
I also formated the main drive to get all my unneeded files off.
Well that's one way...
by John.Wilkinson - 8/7/08 9:40 AM
In reply to: I deleted it when i was reinstalling vista by Rammstein420
A lot of unnecessary work, forcing you to reinstall all software and restoring your files form backup, and it defeats the purpose of looking for partitioning software, but what's done is done. Hope it all works out for you.
John
but i wanted to get the unused space back
by Rammstein420 - 8/7/08 12:07 PM In reply to: Well that's one way... by John.Wilkinson
and i couldnt find another way. alas it didnt work either.
As I said...
by John.Wilkinson - 8/7/08 5:51 PM
In reply to: but i wanted to get the unused space back by Rammstein420
You must "extend" or "enlarge" the partition using the free/unallocated space, which is easy to do with the free application GParted. Vista's Disk Management (go Control Panel->System and Maintenance->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management) can't always get the job done, and taking drastic actions such as reformatting the main partition only add to the workload.
John
I tried the windows command prompt...
by Rammstein420 - 8/13/08 8:53 PM In reply to: As I said... by John.Wilkinson
To extend a basic volume using a command line
Open a command prompt and type diskpart.
At the DISKPART prompt, type list volume. Make note of the basic volume you want to extend.
At the DISKPART prompt, type select volume <volumenumber>. This selects the basic volume volumenumber that you want to extend into contiguous, empty space on the same disk.
At the DISKPART prompt, type extend [size=<size>]. This extends the selected volume by size megabytes (MB).
So I wrote: Diskpart in the run field, typed list volume, the base volume was 1. At the diskpart prompt, i typed select volum <volume number> which is either <1> or <Volume1> Then I typed extend [size=<size>] (im thinking the first size was the current drive capacity which is 465GB so in mb (465000=<35000>]
But it ends up saying the arguments specified for this command are not
valid. Please Help Ireally want to get that lost data back.
(NT) Once again, read my above post on GParted.
by John.Wilkinson - 8/13/08 9:53 PM
In reply to: I tried the windows command prompt... by Rammstein420
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