Re: RESIZE THE PARTITION!!!
Hi, shater.
Numbers! We need numbers!
As John Barnes said, several users have reported success with deleting that
following partition, then extending C:, and then recreating the other
partition(s). But we can't make solid recommendations without knowing more
about the size of the other partitions and how full they may be. The key to
expanding the System Partition is that there must be Free Space immediately
following it. If you don't have that space, then you must create it.
For example, if that 480 GB is a single partition but only 100 GB of it is
used, then you could shrink it down to 120 GB (leave some elbow room). Then
you could create a new 120 GB volume following it and move all the data to
the new partition. Then you could delete the original partition and expand
your first partition to use some or all of that space. And all without
using any third-party products; it's all built into Vista, especially Disk
Management (diskmgmt.msc).
Many variations are possible, but they depend on how much free space you
have or can create - contiguous to your system partition - to work with.
With your 4 big drives, you may be able to just move the data from the first
HD to another one - and then move it back later, if you like.
Disk Management's Help file is somewhat obtuse, but full of useful
information if you can work your way through its focus on topics that most
users never get involved with, such as dynamic drives and GPT disks. Type
"extend" into Help's search box to find a half-dozen pages on this topic.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
"shater" <shater@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hii alll, actualy i have a 4 HD with 500Gb for each one, but i made a big
> mistake by make the primary partition size 20GB, and as you all know this
> storage is not enough for windows vista ultimate 64BIT and it's ubdate, SO
> how i can resize the primary partition to make it more bigger WITHOUT
> FORMATING, or losing the data in this partition
> ??????????????????????????????????????? 