Need advice-I think I made C: partition too small!

[jimbo45]

Hi there

I still think the best method is

1) Download GPARTED partition manager

2) Reduce partition size say of D with GPARTED

3) Resize C with free space.


The problem of using Folders etc as "Mountable" partitions makes backing up and restoring your system a much more complicated process.

If you just have your OS on say "C" all you need to do is use a decent backup program say like Acronis or Ghost to backup your C image. You can then restore this even from a bootable drive (or USB stick) if you need to recover your OS and it only takes around 10 - 15 mins.

If you've got "System" type partitions all over the place this quick type of recovery isn't possible any more.

It can be done but judging by a lot of posts on this (and other Forums) it would seem people aren't terribly good with their OS housekeeping jobs and if they need to recover something would probably get themseleves hosed up pretty quickly.


Keeping the OS on its own partition might not be the sexiest way of doing it but it's SIMPLE and almost unbreakable. Backing up and restoring from any type of failure --even from a completely broken hard disk is no problem if you image the disk with one of the backup programs specified above.

I'm not saying using multiple folders as "Drives" is impossible - but any extra complications will greatly increase the chances of errors if something unexpected happens.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[OEM]

We All Need to Keep this Mind ;

IMPORTANT: The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you'll need to rebuild your test machine using a valid version of Windows before the software expires. You'll need to rebuild your test PC to replace the OS and reinstall all your programs and data.

So no update/upgrade options from RC to RTM. Can't use a RTM license key on RC either, so no way around it, we'll all have to reinstall at some point.

 

[Uber Philf]

We All Need to Keep this Mind ;




So no update/upgrade options from RC to RTM. Can't use a RTM license key on RC either, so no way around it, we'll all have to reinstall at some point.

True, but we got another couple of months before our computers become Zombies

Enzo.

 

[StratCat]

We All Need to Keep this Mind ;


So no update/upgrade options from RC to RTM. Can't use a RTM license key on RC either, so no way around it, we'll all have to reinstall at some point.

Yep.

Kinda' makes one wonder if MS is making the RC widely available for testing/feedback, or marketing?

I suspect many ppl will not want to revert back to a previous Vista install after 9+ months of W7 RC use.

 

[holo88]

that's some good marketing. forcing everyone to blindly fall in love with, dare i say,
a masterpiece, of windows awesomeness. then take it away......touche M$

 

[bhuulo]

that's some good marketing. forcing everyone to blindly fall in love with, dare i say,
a masterpiece, of windows awesomeness. then take it away......touche M$

They are not going to take it away, one or other build is always going to come and by then I think the final version will get released... so no worry...

But true atleast I'd not like to return to Vista again...

 

[Uber Philf]

If w7 is expensive, ill have to go back to vista x86 :'(

Enzo.

 

[harpua]

I'll find a way to pay for it. I like it too much to go back to V.

 

[bhuulo]

No Official news but only speculations is that home or whatever the version or flavor below the ultimate is, will be rounded to 250-300$$, i.e. [email protected]

 

[bhuulo]

There may be student discount as MS-Office has student version

 

[tfcolligan]

Hey they should offer some sort of sizable discount for those of us who took all these great pains to continue their evaluation unwittingly . Everything (functionality-wise, if not more) is being reported back to MS as we play, and updates are coming in with some frequency, and undoubtedly in no small part as a result of their evaluation of what is being reported back. Version 7 RC is also the "Ultimate" version, and so what if it ends up costing $400 or something absolutely outrageous like that? Hey as my cousin Luigi would say, fogettabottit! Vista's not nearly as bad as all that if you're willing to give it a good massage and perhaps a large dose of e-laxative.

 

[tfcolligan]

What I Ended Up Doing

Could this be a solution maybe?

How To Mount and Access New Partition, Volume or Drive As Folder Path In Windows » My Digital Life

I have the same problem and Im in the process of trying it but I got 80Gb to backup first and its gonna take an hour before I can try (safely that is!).

Thanks again to All, esp. Enzo and Generator. I actually ended up doing both. I've extended C but kept a small 20 GB D partition, which I mounted as folder in C: as well. Looking good by all estimates. Cheers.