Application to change partition size

snowdog

snowdog

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Hello,

One of my relatives has a problem with his C:\ drive being to small, so I want to nib off some of the D:\ drive and add that space to the C drive. I know disk manager but his windows Vista is SOOOO slow, I'd prefer to do it with a 3rd party app, prefferably a bootable one.


So, is this possible:

- Remove about 10-20 GB's from THE START of the D:\ partition ( and obviously, move that data forward if there is any data there).
- Add that space to the c:\ drive


What application is best for this ? Can I do this in Ubuntu for example ?
If I do this in windows this will take me HOURS due to the slowness of that guy's system.
 
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Basically you don't want to hang around at your relatives house for a few hours while it does its stuff then.

Go for 10 mins, install teamviewer. Do from home?
 
i'd backup the whole d partition and then delete it. then extend c using disk management. create a new d partition and copy the backed up files back.

doing this will be far quicker than trying to resize a partition with the data left in place.
 
If anything on d is important then you should be making a back up before changing anything! Wholly irresponsible of not.

A ubuntu live usb had gparted which will do what you want.
 
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MEH I just disabled system restore for now and told him to just buy an SSD in the near future.
Few g's of space back.


Don't understand some of the pre-built pc's of people, who in their right mind makes the c:\ partition only 39 GB :( ?
At least the ''users'' folder is on the d:\ drive, but still, I don't get it.
 
Try running ccleaner to get rid of temp files etc. Can free up an extra few GB.
 
snowdog said:
MEH I just disabled system restore for now and told him to just buy an SSD in the near future.
Few g's of space back.


Don't understand some of the pre-built pc's of people, who in their right mind makes the c:\ partition only 39 GB :( ?
At least the ''users'' folder is on the d:\ drive, but still, I don't get it.
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One trick I've used is junction points.

Cut/paste large programs and things from the C drive to the D drive then do:

Code: 
mklink /J "C:\Program Files\ReallyBigProgram" "D:\Program Files\ReallyBigProgram"

You'll see a shortcut in C:\Program Files which points to the copy on D drive, you can interact with this 'shortcut' as normal but in the background it's actually talking to your D drive.

The benefit of this method is you don't need to reinstall your apps.
 
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