Increasing the size of your patition with Vista

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#19347 13-Feb-2008 14:24

Is it possible to increase the size of your partition. I have a 300g hard drive split into 30g for operationg system and the other 270 approx for install. I am finding that my 30 gig is fulling up fast and want to take some of that 270gig and give to the 30gig.
I am aware that within vista you cannot increase the size of the disk with the boot info on. Was wondering if anyone else has been in this position.
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#110399 13-Feb-2008 14:42

Yes you can.

You need to get to Computer Management (the quickest way is, Start/Orb > right-click on your computer > select Manage). Get pass the UAC prompt.

From Computer Management MMC, navigate to Storage > Disk Management. In the detail pane, highlight the partition you want to shrink, and right-click and you should see "Shrink Volume". Let Vista calculate how much it can shrink and enter the desire value (for amount of empty space to create, or the final volume size of this partition). I am not too sure if you can tell it where should it create the empty space (either beginning, or at the end).

Then repeat the similar process for the partition you want to extend by choosing "Extend Volume".

WARNING: This process may corrupt volumes/data on the hard drive. Please do a full system backup before attempting this to minimise any chance of data corruption.

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#111272 17-Feb-2008 20:46

TY, I learnt alot over this exercise. In the end did a format, just got too messy.