Please Educate Me....

Rik · May 01, 2008, 17:25:48

What gets me, Steve, is that the manufacturers still advertise the 'headline' size of the HD, even though they've made a chunk of it unavailable for use.

Steve · May 01, 2008, 17:38:03

Ah Just found this

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/

I wonder?

I presume any vista DVD will do for the repair as the laptop only comes with a recovery disc, we have a link somewhere on the forum to a vista repair disc.

Did someone say probably worth a backup up first

Rik · May 01, 2008, 17:58:22

Quote from: stevethegas on May 01, 2008, 17:38:03
Did someone say probably worth a backup up first

That would have been me. Sebby posted the recovery disc link, iirc. Do you need a hand to find it?

Noreen · May 01, 2008, 18:10:57

Quote from: stevethegas on May 01, 2008, 17:21:46
The OS is vista and as yet I have not found a way of increasing the size of the primary system partition, certainly vista's disk management tools are incapable. I

Why can't Vista's disk management tools manage this? Why can't you go to Disk Management and right click on the icon of the drive which you wish to reduce you'll get a menu with choices to expand or shrink the drive? This spare space will become "unallocated" you then go to the drive which you wish to expand and use it. I'm new to Vista so may have this wrong but that's what I understand.

Steve · May 01, 2008, 18:19:47

Thanks, Found it via google, However I do wonder with all the useful information that is scattered around this forum whether there is any way of tidying it all together instead of having to read through long lists of posts.

Noreen: As you say you can delete the non OS partition via vista disk management however it would not allow me to resize the system partition to fill the unallocated space.

Rik · May 01, 2008, 18:27:59

We keep thinking about some way to codify the posts, Steve, but it's difficult to know which ones to include and which ones to exclude to avoid something unworkable.

Noreen · May 01, 2008, 18:47:34

Steve, does this help at all, it's from Disk Management Help.

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Rik · May 01, 2008, 19:09:36

Got the scanner working, Noreen?

Noreen · May 01, 2008, 19:15:54

I haven't even bought it yet, Rik.

Rik · May 01, 2008, 19:19:37

Ah, screen grab then?

Noreen · May 01, 2008, 19:22:08

Quote from: Rik on May 01, 2008, 19:19:37
Ah, screen grab then?

That's right, from the Help section.

Rik · May 01, 2008, 19:22:41

Wonderful things, help sections.

Steve · May 01, 2008, 19:38:15

Thanks Noreen.The way I read it from the help section is that in order for me to extend the system volume on the laptop to the contiguous space I must be able to convert to a dynamic disk and its the latter part which I am unable to fulfil on the laptop. The Gparted live cd looks like an available option followed by a vista repair.