When using any such partition resizing tool, realize the process could take a long long time -- 'cause the tool has to "move" any discovered data "residing on the borders" from current partition over to resized partition. When I used Acronis Disk Director for a resizing -- I discovered time and patience is needed, and, the moved material was placed into a real geeky folder combination.
Glad I stumbled upon this thread before starting a new one. In trying to create a data (D) partition on a newly installed HDD, I found I could only shrink the (C) drive down to 349GB, leaving 332GB Unallocated. 349GB for the system drive seems like a waste of space so I'll give your suggestion a try to free up some more space for the data partition.This is now possible without having the need to reformat the partition.
I've performed the task using Partition Magic:
Move/Resize Partitions in Single Internal HDD (Repartition).
Thanks-
It`s best/safest to make and use a Partition Wizard Boot CD to manage partitions.
Bootable Partition Manger | MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable Edition
Just throwing this out as another option. I use Macrium Reflect Pro and when I clone a drive I have the option to create/resize the target drive's partitions into any size I choose, as long as the data will fit. In this case you'd have to clone to a spare drive, then back again to the original drive.
I tried 'resizing' an existing drive once and it was miserable, took over 16 hours. The clone method took just hours.
I've never had any issues using free mini tool
It is recommended to disable sleep and hibernation before
Depending on the security that is installed there might be issues if it blocks or disrupts the process though
I downloaded pwfree91-x64 & rufus-2.6, followed this and received this popup.
'ISO image seems to use an obsolete version of ‘vestment.c32’.
Boot menus may not display properly because of this
A newer version can be downloaded by Rufus to fix this issue:
- Choose ‘yes’ to connect to the internet & download the file
- Choose ‘no’ to leave the existing ISO file unmodified
If you don’t know what to do, you should select ‘yes’.'
Can anyone explain what's going on here???
Last edited by Benteke; 18 Mar 2016 at 21:08.
This is what you saw?
To answer your question, yes it is alright to let it download the updated version, I just tried it with those versions you mentioned. Following that guide as well.
Here is the result,
Ready to go. :)
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to C drive??
