NTFS filesystem expansion
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A colleague has a PS with Win200 on he is messing with.
He has one C: ntfs partition and a second partition on the same physical disk, d: which is an ntfs partition. He wants to remove the D: partition and make the c: partition the whole size of the physical disk, not half that it already is.
How can this be done, as I assume Win2k wont let you resize an active ntfs boot partition ?? Can you boot from a floppy (Win/Partition Magic/Disksuite) and do it ?
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He has one C: ntfs partition and a second partition on the same physical disk, d: which is an ntfs partition. He wants to remove the D: partition and make the c: partition the whole size of the physical disk, not half that it already is.
How can this be done, as I assume Win2k wont let you resize an active ntfs boot partition ?? Can you boot from a floppy (Win/Partition Magic/Disksuite) and do it ?
Dave
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You should be able to do it with Partition Magic. (You'll need v7 which has the support for 2k) Don't think there's a need to boot from floppy though cos I've done a similar thing with NT Workstation and you can do it on-the-fly ie From within the live OS!
If you don't have a copy of Partition Magic you should be able to download the trial copy from http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic and get the *cough* crack *cough* for it!
Good luck!
Nick
If you don't have a copy of Partition Magic you should be able to download the trial copy from http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic and get the *cough* crack *cough* for it!
Good luck!
Nick
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Make sure everything is backed up, bigtime. Occasionally, things go wrong and then the machine won't boot!
Dynamic disks - now there's a pain! Just tried to install XP onto a second partition on a dynamic disk and it won't have it!! Says its not a valid partition, despite the fact that Win2k is using it quite happily.
Dynamic disks - now there's a pain! Just tried to install XP onto a second partition on a dynamic disk and it won't have it!! Says its not a valid partition, despite the fact that Win2k is using it quite happily.
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