Comments on: Resize partition in Vista

By: Brian Tkatch

Brian Tkatch — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:08:24 +0000

Ghosting the drive first is usually a good option.

By: Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:53:18 +0000

I suppose you are right, by googling I found a few users crying due to poweroff during resize

ex: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post507335.html

By: How to Partition a Hard Drive

How to Partition a Hard Drive — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:48:52 +0000

I dont know cause i heard that resizing partitions is risky. We might lost all our data if the process fails.

Is it true?

By: Amardeep Sidhu

Amardeep Sidhu — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:54:46 +0000

This simple thing…they should have added years ago…dont know what they have been thinking ?

May be…Partition Magic sales going up

By: Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:48:40 +0000

Thanks for those hints. I have created a 20 Gb and do not expect to resize it soon, so it will do the job but I am sure it is not as robust as PM.

By: ebrian

ebrian — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:00:49 +0000

It didn’t take me long to realize that Vista’s built in partitioning option has it’s limitations. I’ve found that GParted, which is essentially like a FREE version of Partition Magic, is very robust at resizing and moving Windows partitions.

By: Marcelo Ochoa

Marcelo Ochoa — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:58:34 +0000

Hi Laurent:
I did same job resizing Vista partition but using directly a hard disk utility which came with Mandriva 2008.1 Linux distro.
Best regards, Marcelo.