Partitioning a Hard Disc
 

Guy at work is having problems trying to re-size his HDD. He's using Partition Magic (Don't know if its any good?), so far he has one HDD split into C & D. He wants to make the D smaller & the C bigger but it says it needs to reboot to carry this out. Computer reboots, but partitions are still the same size. He can make D smaller & have unallocated space OK but cannot assign that space to C.

Any ideas?

Re: Partitioning a Hard Disc
 

the 2 drives might be logical and non logical which is why it won't let him

Partition Magic is very good - usually if that doesn't work nothing will post a screen shot of his Partition Magic view on here and I'll be more help

Re: Partitioning a Hard Disc
 

IIRC (been a while since I last did it) you can' make one partition bigger without formatting the whole drive. You can further divide partitions but not re-allocate some bits to other bits (ie make them bigger).

Someone stop me if this is drivel!

Cheers,
Matt

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OK - STOP!!! It's drivel :p

Re: Partitioning a Hard Disc
 

They are both logical. Hows this?

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...y/untitled.jpg

Re: Partitioning a Hard Disc
 

Asking for trouble, resizing parttion that also hosts operating system you are.

He'd better off backing his stuff up and starting again from scratch IMHO.

Thats certainly what I'd do anyway.

Re: Partitioning a Hard Disc
 

It's a laptop. It came with some recovery type discs but he's not sure whether they would re-install Windows OK? Some of the folders in Program Files are now looking ghosted, what does this mean??? :)

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there is no chance he will be able to take size from D and put it to C cause F is in the way.

He needs to

Resize D and F so that there is space from F to then move into C

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Argh he changed it & I didn't spot it in the pic. He created F (originally there were only C & D). He now wants to merge C & F!

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OK this is what I would tell him to do

Carefully power off his laptop, put it back in its box along with all the disks and then take it somewhere tell them what he wants done and get them to do it.

Seriously, I dont wanna be rude but your mate sounds like a numpty where this stuff is concerned.