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Topic: How to resize a partition?

Anonymous 5264ccf7447949196b468c1cc6fdbbab started this discussion 1 month (2008-10-14 13:24:14 UTC) ago:

Recently, I managed to destroy a partition on my primary hard drive. This partition happened to be the Linux swap partition (which doesn't really bother me since I don't use Linux anymore). Unfortunately, it caused the GRUB to piss its virtual pants and just exit with an error. So, an MBR restore was in order. I also deleted the remaining Linux partition.

Now I'm left with an embarrassing amount of free space (I gave Linux way too much) and of course I'd like to use it. I could just make a new partition and assign it a drive letter, but is there any way I could "add" the free space to my primary (C:) partition? Windows doesn't let you do that; I heard there are apps for that, but I don't want to spend money. This is what it currently looks like:

[BOOT (C:)] { [BACKUP (D:)] [Unallocated] [RECOVER (E:)] }

({ } is the extended partition.)

Anonymous 207e10bf5e26d18ecaed24e09bcc1256 replied with this 1 month (2008-10-14 13:51:00 UTC) ago, 27 minutes later (#69,849):

I used Acronsis Disk Director Suite to give myself more space on my C drive from another partition. Worked nicely.

Anonymous 6076979dc40a44ca2c7e4451bdd63732 replied with this 1 month (2008-10-14 14:03:03 UTC) ago, 12 minutes later (#69,857):

Google " Gparted"

Anonymous 5264ccf7447949196b468c1cc6fdbbab (OP) replied with this 1 month (2008-10-14 14:40:58 UTC) ago, 38 minutes later (#69,881):

@69,849

Thanks for the tip, but as I wrote, I'm not willing to spend any money.

@69,857

Looks an awful lot like a Linux program. Can I create a boot CD with it or how am I supposed to use this?

Anonymous 6076979dc40a44ca2c7e4451bdd63732 replied with this 1 month (2008-10-14 16:51:58 UTC) ago, 2 hours later (#69,929):

It's a free linux utility, it can be a LiveCD that you boot up with your computer. Similar to Partition Magic.

Anonymous a23c5f780dde02bc4952b5330e4b4b01 replied with this 1 month (2008-10-14 17:44:54 UTC) ago, 53 minutes later (#69,935):

@69,929

Casting my vote here also for gparted. Extremely easy to use, extremely reliable; the code is both free as in free beer, and free as in liberty.

Anonymous 01747f6fecda2b77b4e212832dbf569c replied with this 1 month (2008-10-14 17:47:47 UTC) ago, 3 minutes later (#69,937):

@69,881

You don't have to spend any money. ;-)
But Arconis is a piece of shit anyway, I don't recommend it.

Gparted works as a boot CD and hasn't given me any problems so far, just make sure to get the latest version.

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