Partitioning

[Dave VanHorn]

Is there any reasonable way to bump the partition size of the boot
partition, when it is an XP "Dynamic" drive?

I bought the latest Norton partition commander which sort of forgot to
mention on the box that "Works with XP Pro NTFS partitions" means "but not
with dynamic drives".....

So, my C is still getting cluttered with junk, and now the free space is
getting unmanagably small.

 

[Galen]

In Dave VanHorn <[email protected]> had this to say:

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Is there any reasonable way to bump the partition size of the boot
partition, when it is an XP "Dynamic" drive?

I bought the latest Norton partition commander which sort of forgot to
mention on the box that "Works with XP Pro NTFS partitions" means
"but not with dynamic drives".....

So, my C is still getting cluttered with junk, and now the free space
is getting unmanagably small.

I don't know of any way at all. You could resize with your Norton product
(used to be Partition Magic) if you wanted but it won't let you change a
virtual drive probably. Take some from another drive and merge it with the
drive that's short on space is my only idea. Other posts may follow but
that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Galen

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Pls read Dynamic Disk from this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkb_cnc_klvo.asp


Peter

 

[Dave VanHorn]

Pls read Dynamic Disk from this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkb_cnc_klvo.asp

I didn't see anything there that was relevant, but after fishing around in
that doc a while, this seems to indicate that "no" would be the short
version.

 

[Ron Martell]

Is there any reasonable way to bump the partition size of the boot
partition, when it is an XP "Dynamic" drive?

I bought the latest Norton partition commander which sort of forgot to
mention on the box that "Works with XP Pro NTFS partitions" means "but not
with dynamic drives".....

So, my C is still getting cluttered with junk, and now the free space is
getting unmanagably small.

You cannot extend a dynamic disk that is the system or boot volume.

Good luck


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