Enlarging system partition?

10 Oct 2008 8:42 AM

Michael Moser

I got myself a new, larger hard disk and transferred the data of my old
system disk to it using a disk imager.
That worked fine (i.e. I am now already working on that new disk), but
that only gave me a 1:1 copy, i.e. I still need to enlarge the system
partition to make use of the yet unallocated space.

Does WinXP have any tool to enlarge the system partition that it has
booted from?

I have an old version of PartitionMagic, but it reports errors on my
disk and I read, that - since PM hasn't been developed further since
years - it might have problems with nowadays disk sizes - so I am
hesitant to use it, since I obviously don't want to scramble my data.
What is a good (and preferably free or at least cheap) alternative to
enlarge my system partition?

Michael

10 Oct 2008 10:01 AM

ju.c

Using XP's Disk Management will destroy existing data. Hiren's BootCD
contains all the tools you'll ever need. Or want.

You are going to receive all lot of recommendations but this
is the tool you want, see the info page:

Hiren's BootCD 9.6 124 MB (Freeware)
Info: http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/150185475/HirensBootCD.9.6.rar

ju.c

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"Michael Moser" <michael-nospam.moser@nospam.freesurf.ch> wrote in message news:Oq#BWQrKJHA.4292@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> I got myself a new, larger hard disk and transferred the data of my old
> system disk to it using a disk imager.
> That worked fine (i.e. I am now already working on that new disk), but
> that only gave me a 1:1 copy, i.e. I still need to enlarge the system
> partition to make use of the yet unallocated space.
>
> Does WinXP have any tool to enlarge the system partition that it has
> booted from?
>
> I have an old version of PartitionMagic, but it reports errors on my
> disk and I read, that - since PM hasn't been developed further since
> years - it might have problems with nowadays disk sizes - so I am
> hesitant to use it, since I obviously don't want to scramble my data.
> What is a good (and preferably free or at least cheap) alternative to
> enlarge my system partition?
>
> Michael
>

10 Oct 2008 1:12 PM

Big_Al

Michael Moser wrote:
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> I got myself a new, larger hard disk and transferred the data of my old
> system disk to it using a disk imager.
> That worked fine (i.e. I am now already working on that new disk), but
> that only gave me a 1:1 copy, i.e. I still need to enlarge the system
> partition to make use of the yet unallocated space.
>
> Does WinXP have any tool to enlarge the system partition that it has
> booted from?
>
> I have an old version of PartitionMagic, but it reports errors on my
> disk and I read, that - since PM hasn't been developed further since
> years - it might have problems with nowadays disk sizes - so I am
> hesitant to use it, since I obviously don't want to scramble my data.
> What is a good (and preferably free or at least cheap) alternative to
> enlarge my system partition?
>
> Michael
>

So don't read this, ju.c just might be right.

A good imaging software would also have allowed you to resize the
destination partition. Acronis True Image Home does just that. I've
used it to move my laptop drive from 80 to 120 gig drives. But then
this is water over the dam.

10 Oct 2008 1:58 PM

Klaus Jorgensen

Michael Moser explained :

> I got myself a new, larger hard disk and transferred the data of my old
> system disk to it using a disk imager.
> That worked fine (i.e. I am now already working on that new disk), but that
> only gave me a 1:1 copy, i.e. I still need to enlarge the system partition to
> make use of the yet unallocated space.
>

For most of my image/partition work I'm always using BootIt:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm

It's actually a boot manager, but also a partition/imaging tool. It's
pretty small and installs to a floppy (or bootable CD), and even the
trial version is able to resize/slide partitions.

--
/klaus

13 Oct 2008 5:33 PM

Ray Parrish

Hello,

Like all things Linux, GParted Live is free and can work on NTFS volumes
as well. It's a CD image you can download and burn which has the GParted
partition managing software on it.

Here's a link -

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Later, Ray Parrish

Michael Moser wrote:
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> I got myself a new, larger hard disk and transferred the data of my old
> system disk to it using a disk imager.
> That worked fine (i.e. I am now already working on that new disk), but
> that only gave me a 1:1 copy, i.e. I still need to enlarge the system
> partition to make use of the yet unallocated space.
>
> Does WinXP have any tool to enlarge the system partition that it has
> booted from?
>
> I have an old version of PartitionMagic, but it reports errors on my
> disk and I read, that - since PM hasn't been developed further since
> years - it might have problems with nowadays disk sizes - so I am
> hesitant to use it, since I obviously don't want to scramble my data.
> What is a good (and preferably free or at least cheap) alternative to
> enlarge my system partition?
>
> Michael
>

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