How I resized a Windows partition
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Jul 14, 2006, 01:03 AM
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jordan314 Junior Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 16 |
Flitch, Several people have already posted the answer to your problem, to convert to NTFS run CMD and type this and hit enter: convert c: /fs:ntfs Ok, we were able to expand the partition after converting it to a dynmaic disk in disk management, and also deleting the second partition we had incorrectly set as NTFS. Booting from the copy we made of my original virtual hard drive file, extend in diskpart worked fine, but we had to select the disk number to extend the drive onto. http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window...55c5c1033.mspx explained extend in detail. After we selected the volume, we typed list disk and then picked the empty space into which we wanted to extend the drive. We then typed extend disk=n, choosing the correct disk....extended. Then....we powered down the virtual machine and changed the original hard drive, now extended, as the main harddrive and removed the copy (we didn't delete it, for which we are glad). But the machine said there was no boot device available. How did you guys get it to boot from the original image file? The page linked to above says that a boot volume cannot be extended. Did we screw it up somehow? Thanks for your help, Jordan (and girlfriend Maeve, who tried to do some of this and has an electromagnetic field that breaks computers...) |
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Sep 10, 2006, 01:17 AM
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shrimpcreole Junior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 2 |
Thank you .... well, I guess. Now, I have an even bigger problem. When I reboot, it tells me there is no boot disk available????? Help!!!!! |
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Sep 10, 2006, 01:04 PM
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rajahornstein Junior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 2 |
Trouble with expanded disk Unfortunately, I found this thread too late. I already had expanded my disk from 8 to 20 gigs. I tried making a copy and adding it, but when I run DISKPART it tells me the second disk is not healthy. It says "failed" and it doesn't give a drive letter for it. I also tried using the XP storage management tool which gives this whole process a GUI, but it didn't help. I've tried copying more than once. Any ideas about how to proceed? |
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Oct 12, 2006, 10:16 PM
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dedjoh Junior Member Join: Oct 2006 Posts: 1 |
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Sep 10, 2006, 04:21 PM
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iammattu Junior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 16 |
extend - with Fat32 The initial post worked great - to re-size a disk image. I originally formatted my disk as Fat32 (for reason of supposed ease of communication with OSx and WinXP). Diskpart wouldn't expand the Fat32 drives though. Fix: Convert the Fat32 drives to NTFS first: In the command prompt window, type: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs For example, typing convert C: /fs:ntfs would format drive D: with the ntfs format. Do this for both drives (in my case c and e drives) |
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Oct 23, 2006, 11:59 PM
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climber_rich Junior Member Join: Oct 2006 Posts: 1 |
Thks to all! Quick, easy and it worked like a charm. |
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Nov 4, 2006, 06:14 AM
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DavidofOz Junior Member Join: Nov 2006 Posts: 2 |
Well done sfw! You provided very clear, detailed instructions. Thank you very much for posting the results of your journey of discovery! I was stymied by my VM accessing only 8gb inside WinXP, but showing a size of 15gb outside in Mac OSX and Parallels controls. It was all a Windows disk partitioning issue - which cannot be solved on the boot/system disk. Using the power of Virtual disks made for an easy solution. Thanks again. Cheers DavidofOz |
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Nov 6, 2006, 09:11 AM
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ilovetrucks Junior Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 6 |
A big Thank You Thanks for the Great instructions. I performed this on my XP VM and it worked perfect. I had been running out of Windows Virtual Memory and this cured all. |
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Nov 6, 2006, 06:21 PM
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mschool Member Join: Nov 2006 Posts: 52 |
Gnome Editor failed; DISKPART failed to extend the volume I've done steps in reverse order, but I can't understand why I am not able to extend my volume. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I ran Gnome Partition Editor and was attempted to extend the volume to 80 GB When I hit "Apply", I get an error message that said that the operation could not be applied to the disc. I understand that WinXP must me told to extend the volume. However, when I created a copy of my HDD and ran DISKPART, and got this message: DiskPart failed to extend the volume. Please make sure the volume is valid for extending. Volume # Letter Fs Type Size Status Info Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 78 GB Healthy System *Volume 2 E NTFS Partition 78 GB Healthy My VM runs great (at 8GB) I just can't extend it to 80 GB. |
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Dec 1, 2006, 07:21 PM
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am3n3 Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 5 |
I just found out about this forum today (thanks Google!) because I was getting no joy explaining increasing the size of my Windows partition to Parallels' email support (sorted w/Ben now). Batman's instructions back on post #20 worked for me running Windows 2000 as my Guest OS. Previously I ran Image Tool to increase the VM's size, and ran diskmgmt.mmc to newly available space as unallocated space. Before running gparted as a boot ISO I made sure the extra space was marked as unallocated, and that my disk was formatted to NTFS. His instructions worked as-is; couldn't be simpler. My Windows is now a happy 2GB partition! :D |
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Dec 2, 2006, 03:27 AM
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Mike Boreham Senior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 104 |
Another Way. Someone earlier mentioned Partition Magic as another way of doing the resize. I did it without any trouble using Acronis Disk Director, using a bootable disk created by Acronis Disk Director. Mike |
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