Partition Wizard

[Night Hawk]

Seeing that C is at the back of the drive instead of being the first primary on the drive which the Windows installer always look for I would already had nuked the drive and created all new partitions to the desired sizes with the C up front followed by the other two. You are trying to cramp the OS partition at the back end of the drive instead.

 

[huffman]

Night Hawk C drive is the first primary drive. If I look at My PC, Disk Management or Windows Explorer C drive is always listed first.

First I would like to thank everyone for their patience and indulgence.

I followed the instructions given by nssgnim and SIW2, which are are identical in nature.


I resized C and it now looked like this:



That looked like it was supposed to so I resized E and it looked this:



Again everything was as it should be so I click Apply and got this:



So I said to self, boot up from the Boot CD and C drive will NOT be running. So I booted from the Boot CD and all was fine except this got this warning (Sorry NO Pictures):

Warning:

DO NOT take the following operations, for these will cause your system to be unbootable.

1. Moving/Resizing system partition of Windows Vista/ Windows 2008/ Windows 7.

2. Creating/Deleting any partitions of Windows 2000/ Windows XP / Windows 2003.

Note the words used at the very first of the warning "will cause", not may cause or anything less.

That brought everything to a halt. Other than doing another clean install of Windows 7, I really don't know what to do. For now Win 7 is working fine, I just don't have access to all the space on the HDD. So I guess I will wait until the final version of Win 7 comes out in October and then clean install it.

Again thanks for all the help.

 

[SIW2]

That is normal.

If you move your windows partition to a different location - you won't automatically boot straight back into it.

That is because bootmgr ( he lives in the little 100mb patition ) will still be looking for the original location of your windows partition.

You did everything right.

After you click Apply - you would need to let bootmgr know the new location of the windows partition.

PW won't do that for you automatically.

Running startup repair from the 7 dvd will update the bcd store - that contains the info which lets bootmgr know where the windows partition is.

You can then boot in as usual.

 

[nssgnim]

huffman:
Do not use PW boot cd to resize your partition in this case. Use its Windows application and Simply click "Restart Now" after you perform all steps SIW2 posted before, and you can forget about this post forever

SIW2:
you surely an expert, my hats off

 

[myzr7]

huffman:
Do not use PW boot cd to resize your partition in this case. Use its Windows application and Simply click "Restart Now" after you perform all steps SIW2 posted before, and you can forget about this post forever

SIW2:
you surely an expert, my hats off

+1 on that. I Knew I would learn something by jumping in on this thread. I am anxious to see if OP resolved his problem.

 

[huffman]

Either nssgnim or SIW2

Let me make sure I have this straight:

Using the installed PW, I go through the size changes for C and then E then click Apply. I get this warning:



There I click "Restart Now"??

 

[SIW2]

What you did in post 23 looks right - you just need to Apply it.

You can perform exactly the same steps using the boot disc - but it seems the installed version will do the same thing. PW loads itself into Ram and does it from there on restart.

Once you have finished partitioning, you won't be able to boot straight into windows - you need to run startup repair from the 7 dvd. That will adjust the bcd entries for you.

 

[nssgnim]

Restart Now
Restart Now
Restart Now
Restart Now
Restart Now
Restart Now

and keep your finger crossed

 

[huffman]

Houston WE have BLASTOFF.

It took an extra step but now I have all the partitions at or near the size I wanted and as far as I can tell everything works.

When I got to the restart button, I clicked the Restart button. At restart, PW booted up before windows was loaded and went through what it said was both of the steps. This was NOT true in some respects, but it did allow me to do another resize. This is what PW looked like after it went through the restart procedures:



From there I did another resize making Edrive the size I wanted and the unallocated space zero. This time Windows did not have to restart, it did the resize of E with windows running. After this, PW looked like this"



I certainly appreciate all the help. You guys are great.

 

[SIW2]

That looks right to me. Don't worry about the little 1mb unallocated on the left - just leave that as it is.

You didn't mention using startup repair.

Glad it worked for you.

 

[huffman]

You didn't mention using startup repair.

Never had to do anything after the last run on PW. Could not ask for it to run any smoother.

 

[luchokike123]

hi SIW2

Please could you help me about partition in my HP Pavilion, windows 7 started?. I have 240 gb in C (OS) but i have 03 more partition (Recovery, HP Tools, and System) .
With partition wizard I can shrink my C partition until 40 gb (it is i want) and the 200 gb became in "Unallocated space" but in this unallocated space I could´t create a new partition. The massage is "There no a MBR slots on the disk"...what can I do?

I want to create a new partition with my 200 gb to put My Documents here and separate fron the C (OS).

Thanks
Regards
Luchokike123

 

[MilesAhead]

Are you running Partition Wizard from the boot CD?

edit: It sounds like what happened is you already have 4 primary partitions. That's the max. There's only 4 spaces in the MBR partition table. You need to convert(usually the last) one to an extended partition. Then inside that you can make many logical partitions.

I have Partition Wizard but I haven't used it yet. I'd look for a forum on their site for particular things about using their software. Just be careful when you convert a primary to an extended you don't lose your data. You may want to make backups of everything first.

 

[luchokike123]

Hi there Miles Ahead

No, I dont runnin partition Wizard from Boot CD , I had installed the partition wizard in my laptop. So I running double clicking in the desktop icon.

In My Windows 7 Disk manager I see 4 partitions
C: operating system + My Documents
D: recovery
*: HP Tools
*: System
How can i convert or craete extend partition?. About my data my laptop is new so i dont have any document yet. Can you please guide me about create extend partition from primary partition with Partition Wizard?

Are you sure that only 4 partitions is the limit?
I hope you can help me please
Thanks
Regards
Luchokike123

 

[MilesAhead]

Hi there Miles Ahead

No, I dont runnin partition Wizard from Boot CD , I had installed the partition wizard in my laptop. So I running double clicking in the desktop icon.

In My Windows 7 Disk manager I see 4 partitions
C: operating system + My Documents
D: recovery
*: HP Tools
*: System
How can i convert or craete extend partition?. About my data my laptop is new so i dont have any document yet. Can you please guide me about create extend partition from primary partition with Partition Wizard?

Are you sure that only 4 partitions is the limit?
I hope you can help me please
Thanks
Regards
Luchokike123

The limit is 4 primary partitions. You need to change one of the primary partitions into an extended partition. See this article:

Change partition type between logical and primary without data losing.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

That is a little awkward.

If you alter one of the oem partitions ( recovery or tools) you likely won't be able to access it.

You could make the C partition into your "System" partition, then delete the 100 mb partition.

You would then have a free slot.

You can do it with this.

View attachment sisparV5.zip

Rt click and Run as Admin on Sispar.cmd

 

[Zoro85]

Hi there Miles Ahead

No, I dont runnin partition Wizard from Boot CD , I had installed the partition wizard in my laptop. So I running double clicking in the desktop icon.

In My Windows 7 Disk manager I see 4 partitions
C: operating system + My Documents
D: recovery
*: HP Tools
*: System
How can i convert or craete extend partition?. About my data my laptop is new so i dont have any document yet. Can you please guide me about create extend partition from primary partition with Partition Wizard?

Are you sure that only 4 partitions is the limit?
I hope you can help me please
Thanks
Regards
Luchokike123

Hello to all!I'm italian so first of all I apologise for my english.
I bought a notebook HP dv6 2135sl with W7 and I have the same problem.

The partitions are all primary and the order is the sequent:
C (450GB)
hp tool (99MB)
recovery (16GB)
sistem (199MB)

I would like to decrease C until 50GB and create two other partitions: J (Programmes 150GB) and K(Data 250GB). Is it possible? I understood that I have to change one of the 4 partitions into extended. Which one is the best?Can I use only PM or I need the operation that SIW2 was starting describing a week ago?How?
Thank you to all!!!!!!

 

[dluis]

Resize partitions

I'm trying to resize some partitions in one of my hd but I already have 4 partitions. How can I solve the problem? I want to increase C: adding 40Gb from H: and also increase G: adding 40 Gb from E: drive.
Can someone explain me jow to do it with PW?
I enclose a screenshot from PW
Thanks a lot

 

[phoenix750]

hi...just want to share my experience, after i am reading all comments for this thread. i can use partition wizard, and the maximum dirve are 2 (C and D, 2 others are for system and HP_Tools, my laptop is HP DV6-3127DX).

I have faced a same problem before like huffman on last sept 2009,

Again everything was as it should be so I click Apply and got this:



and this message comes up because I pass the maximum limit of shrink volume for drive C. then I just change the shrink volume, it is working. before I have C 440GB, D 20GB, now C 230GB, D 230GB

 

[KremmenUK]

I'm trying to resize some partitions in one of my hd but I already have 4 partitions. How can I solve the problem? I want to increase C: adding 40Gb from H: and also increase G: adding 40 Gb from E: drive.
Can someone explain me jow to do it with PW?
I enclose a screenshot from PW
Thanks a lot

You have to jiggle it about a bit, decreasing first whilst using the option where to place the now unallocated space. In your case 'before'.

Then work backwards until you have the unallocated spaces after the C:\. Then you can enlarge the C:\

Bit fiddly and time consuming but can be done.