Hard drive problem

Simon · Jul 07, 2011, 12:24:16

I'm having trouble with this. I've loaded Puppy, and can see all the drives in the Gparted window. It will let me reduce the size of the D (Documents) drive, but it won't let me increase the size of the C (boot) drive, only reduce it, which is the opposite of what I want to do. Any help?

Ray · Jul 07, 2011, 12:35:00

Simon, I think you'll need to reduce the size of the D partition first to create some unallocated space to expand the C partition into.

Lance · Jul 07, 2011, 13:11:49

And I thought you were only acting in a advisory role!

Ray · Jul 07, 2011, 13:18:30

It's always the way, Lance, you end up doing it for them!

Simon · Jul 07, 2011, 13:24:46

I did that first, Ray, but it still wouldn't do it. As they'ed back up, I ended up deleting the D partition, then it allowed me to resize C. All was fine, but now, after initially connecting, it won't connect to the web via the Ethernet cable, but other devices can connect wirelessly. It says "Acquiring network address", but fails, and then I get "Limited or no connectivity."

Steve · Jul 07, 2011, 14:04:03

Your're on to problem number 2 now

Glenn · Jul 07, 2011, 14:09:16

I thought you wasn't going to get involved.

Ray · Jul 07, 2011, 14:10:03

kinmel · Jul 07, 2011, 16:37:43

Try this..........

Start> Run> " Cmd.exe " > " ipconfig /renew " to clear the network connection settings, re-boot if necessary

Simon · Jul 07, 2011, 19:33:46

It turned out to be a faulty router, Alan. Wireless was fine, but the Ethernet connection had failed. They now have my spare 2700 on loan, and that works fine, except that we have now discovered the machine has multiple viruses, and Windows is shot, so it's all going to be reinstalled.

MisterW · Jul 07, 2011, 20:37:26

QuoteSimon, I think you'll need to reduce the size of the D partition first to create some unallocated space to expand the C partition into.

For future reference what you needed to do was:-

Reduce the size of the D partition, then move it right to occupy the free space now created after the D partition. This will leave free space after the C Partition and thus allow you to expand it into that free space.

It will take a while though...

Simon · Jul 07, 2011, 21:23:14

Ahh... I wondered what the moving thing was about. I think that's where I slipped up.

MisterW · Jul 08, 2011, 07:06:38

Yep, you can only expand a partition into free space to the right of it. I'm pretty sure you can move a partition either way into free space but it does take a long time for reasonable ( > 100Gb ) size partition.

kinmel · Jul 08, 2011, 07:21:38

Quote from: Simon on Jul 07, 2011, 21:23:14
Ahh... I wondered what the moving thing was about. I think that's where I slipped up.

Sorry my instructions missed that bit, I always resize and then move as one operation and forgot they are actually separate.

Simon · Jul 08, 2011, 07:27:01

No worries, Alan, it worked out OK in the end.