PARTITIONING VISTA

[Bill Condie]

I think the C is primary, your others aren't

Save the data or put it on C, delete the other partitions, then expand C is
one option

 

[John Barnes]

More than likely the free space you obtain from shrinking the adjoining
partition will be at the wrong end of the partition. You need adjoining
freespace for the Vista partition process to work. You are probably going
to need to get third party software or just start over.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Relax -- your sentence was perfectly constructed! You referred to
"partition management" not to "partitioning" <g>

The Mac should have addressed his remarks to:

From: "WILLIAM ALBURY" <[email protected]>
Subject: PARTITIONING VISTA

 

[Guest]

Thanks Wyn. I probably should have pointed out to the guy that I didn't
initiate the thread an of course didn't name it. I just got irritatede with
some jerk getting into a technical discussion to grade the English
composition. My God the poor guy could spend his life just correcting
spelling and trying to explain the differences between the contraction you're
and "your" (my favorite butchery subject). I actually do have a pretty good
background in English studies but I don't waste my time trying to evangelize
the subject.

Have a great day and don't abuse any operating systems. ;-)

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

the differences between the contraction you're 
and "your"

You don't have an Averatec laptop do you? There's a guy there who has
that in his sigline <g>

 

[Guest]

No I don't have an Averatec. My laptop is a Dell. Maybe I will change my
signature to see if I can come up with something more unique.

 

[Guest]

You are correct that the C drive is primary. After trying everything else
under the sun to get that partition resized upward I am going to take your
advice here in a few minutes and delete the second active partiton on that
physical drive and leave it wiht C and a bout 80 GB of free space. I don't
know if or why it will work but it's worth a try.

 

[Guest]

You are probably correct in the free space needing to be adjacent to the
partition that I want to resize. In my first try I shrank the partition that
appears to be adjacent to C when viewed in Disk Manager and it shrank from
the righth hand side of the partition that I was shrinking. Since there was
no option as to which end to shrink from I simply deleted the entire
partition leaving a big chunk of free space adjacent to C. The problem
didn't go away.

Now I'm going to delete the final partition on the drive leaving only the C
partition/drive.

 

[Diamontina Cocktail]

You have to merge the old partition, after having it created and ready to
go, with the original. If you don't have the software on your machine to do
that, you can download a trial copy of Acronis Disk Director Suite from
www.acronis.com and achieve it in minutes.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info. Interestingly enough I own Partition Magic and I used
to use it for just the type of things I'm trying to do here but as you
probably know Symantec bought that product's developer and it is now
overpriced and not very good.

I have already tried the trick with Acronis DD Suite 10. For some reason I
can not get it to install on my computer and of course I can not get any
assistance on a trial version. I also own Acronis True Image 10 and I have
had a lot of experience with their support because they seem to make each
product an ongoing development project. By that I mean that nothing they do
seems to work correctly righ out of the box.

I likewise thought about giving Bootit NG a whirl but I tried it a long time
ago and found that it was a very rough around the edges product that was
anything but user friendly.

In the meantime I did some more study on the Vista Disk Management snap in
and it seems that it just is not possible to enlarge a boot partition with
this product. I had read a post by one of the Micro "softies" that you could
extend the C partition but I think they were talking about a system on which
Vista was booting off another partition.

I may try the Acronis route again and see if I can get it to install in Safe
Mode.

 

[Diamontina Cocktail]

Thanks for the info. Interestingly enough I own Partition Magic and I
used
to use it for just the type of things I'm trying to do here but as you
probably know Symantec bought that product's developer and it is now
overpriced and not very good.

I have already tried the trick with Acronis DD Suite 10. For some reason
I
can not get it to install on my computer and of course I can not get any
assistance on a trial version. I also own Acronis True Image 10 and I
have
had a lot of experience with their support because they seem to make each
product an ongoing development project. By that I mean that nothing they
do
seems to work correctly righ out of the box.

Something is wrong if you cant install it and so far as Acronis support is
concerned, it doesnt exist. I have tried them many times and gotten nothing.

I likewise thought about giving Bootit NG a whirl but I tried it a long
time
ago and found that it was a very rough around the edges product that was
anything but user friendly.

Try one of the ones on this link:

http://www.tucows.com/Windows/IS-IT/OSManagement/HardDriveUtilities/

I am not saying any of them are good, bad or indifferent but the general
idea there is the more cows the better.

In the meantime I did some more study on the Vista Disk Management snap in
and it seems that it just is not possible to enlarge a boot partition with
this product. I had read a post by one of the Micro "softies" that you
could
extend the C partition but I think they were talking about a system on
which
Vista was booting off another partition.

I may try the Acronis route again and see if I can get it to install in
Safe
Mode.

You shouldn't HAVE to do that. When I got the DD suite demo, it installed OK
but that was, of course, back on XP and so far as I am aware, it is fine
with that but not rated, yet, as to Vista compliance. They rate TI10 as
Vista OK which it is though.