[windows2000] Re: Partition Magic and Vista

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:27:15 +0200

Ok, so I shrunk one partition in order to expand another, but the disk
manager won't allow the D-drive to be expanded. Seems like I need Paragon
Partition Manager after all.

What's the idea with allowing a partition to be shrunk but not expanded
anyway??

-- 
/Sorin


>-----Original Message-----
>From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-
>bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
>Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:31 AM
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Partition Magic and Vista
>
>I didn't know I could. I'll check that.
>
>Hah! Shrink volume is available. Thx for the pointer!
>
>--
>/Sorin
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-
>>bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hill
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:04 PM
>>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Partition Magic and Vista
>>
>>Vista itself? Can't you resize disks from disk management in vista?
>>
>>
>>On 08/04/2009, at 9:34 PM, "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Nortin Partition Magic v8.0 doesn't work with Vista. Gparted works
>>> with
>>> Vista, but complains about bad sectors on the hd and requests me to
>>> boot
>>> into Windows and run a chkdsk /f /r and reboot twice. Loading
>>> Gparted still
>>> gives the same error message, so I redo the chkdsk and it's still a
>>> no-go.
>>>
>>> What other options do I have to resize harddisks on the fly with
>>> Windows
>>> Vista??
>>>
>>> TIA.
>>> --
>>> BW,
>>>    Sorin
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