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Partitioning A Drive
I set up a new hard drive with two partitions using fdisk. Then I
restored a drive image to the C drive. I discovered that I had set the size of the second partition too small, so I'm not getting the full use of the drive. Is it possible to use a boot disk and then fdisk to reset the size of the second partition...or do I need to use something like Partition Magic, since the second partition is already formatted? Thanks! Scott |
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Partitioning A Drive
FDISK cannot be used to change existing partitions. It can only be used to
delete everything and start over. Something like Partition Magic, such as BootitNG is needed to change the existing partitioning without forcing you to start over. Note that it is common for the partitioning to be slightly smaller than the full size of the drive. Something other than FDISK might give a little more control over this lost space, but not much. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Scott" wrote in message ... I set up a new hard drive with two partitions using fdisk. Then I restored a drive image to the C drive. I discovered that I had set the size of the second partition too small, so I'm not getting the full use of the drive. Is it possible to use a boot disk and then fdisk to reset the size of the second partition...or do I need to use something like Partition Magic, since the second partition is already formatted? Thanks! Scott |
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Partitioning A Drive
Like Jeff said, you need some help as fdisk won't adjust partitions:
BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Scott" wrote in message ... I set up a new hard drive with two partitions using fdisk. Then I restored a drive image to the C drive. I discovered that I had set the size of the second partition too small, so I'm not getting the full use of the drive. Is it possible to use a boot disk and then fdisk to reset the size of the second partition...or do I need to use something like Partition Magic, since the second partition is already formatted? Thanks! Scott |
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