Help me resizing Windows XP Partition C:

cyclonmaster · January 1st, 2010, 15:34

Ok, I had this laptop with only 1 partition C: with capacity of 300GB. Now I want to split it into 150GB each. How can I do it without gving me trouble formating the operating system and reinstalling XP again? Please advice, thanks.

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Geralt Of Rivia · January 1st, 2010, 16:18

Have you tried through the disk management ?? Run> diskmgmt.msc

gamefreak94 · January 1st, 2010, 16:44

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Disk Management > Right-click on partition and click Resize.

There's a limit as to how much you can cut off from a partition though. My laptop came with a single 160GB partition too, but I could only slice it down to 75GB before it said the limit has been reached.

Off-topic, but I'm BEGGING to know why stupid laptop manufacturers don't partition their products straight from the factory. NOBODY wants a single giant partition on their HD!

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cyclonmaster · January 1st, 2010, 23:52

Right click and no "Resize" option. Only "Change Drive Letter and Path". I'm trying SystemRescue Live CD right now. Hope it work.

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DinJerr · January 3rd, 2010, 15:42

Assuming you have XP 32-bit, you can try this:
EASEUS Partition Master is Magic FREE Partition Manager Software for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7. Free for home users.

I normally use it to prepare partitions for Linux.

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gamefreak94 · January 3rd, 2010, 17:10

Gparted is the best (its the partitioning tool integrated into System Rescue Disc)

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cyclonmaster · January 3rd, 2010, 22:36

I'm using gparted. It's asked me to chkdsk the C: first, then I did. Now resizing it from 300GB to 150GB. Success, reboot and now I cannot enter windows XP. Tried to fix it with XP CD, enter recovery mode and "fixmbr". Still can't do

Before I format this drive, any other solution? Thanks.

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Titus03 · January 3rd, 2010, 23:34

Did you make sure that you didn't swept unmovable data during resizing? I don't think it's possible reason, because that data is usually located near the beginning of the partition.

Hard to say. I had similar situation a couple of years ago and I learned that it's dangerous to resize XP-partition. But we'll try our best to help you. There is still hope. Don't format yet.

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Lasnap · January 4th, 2010, 00:48

did you defrag the hardrive first? you may of wiped clean some files needed for windows to run. if your not careful you can easily bork your os and be unable to recover from it prorpaply so a reinstall is mandatory at times

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cyclonmaster · January 4th, 2010, 10:45

Oh! crap. I think I better format it now. The partition already mess up.

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Silenus · January 4th, 2010, 11:12

I don't know why people recommend Gparted when you are using MBR as default.

Gparted is best when you are trying from scratch, that happened to me when trying to dualboot.

So better format and make your partitions from scratch now.

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ElijahTW · June 24th, 2010, 06:04

Lol, necro spammer. The site doesn't even contain decent english, furthering the lols.

But it does give me a chance to reply to this, which I meant to do in January..

Quote:

Originally Posted by gamefreak94

NOBODY wants a single giant partition on their HD!

Huh? The average person would RATHER want just one partition. You overestimate laptop manufacturer's target consumers.

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Princess Garnet · June 24th, 2010, 06:54

Yeah, and it's not only laptops, but desktops too. The only time I see multiple partitions is when they skip the operating system disk and use a recovery partition that is essentially the disc on the hard drive to reinstall from.

Most users don't even know what partitions are, I'd wager. If they do and/or want a setup as such, they're probably advanced enough to wipe the drive and get a clean Windows install (and without the OEM bloat too). The KISS (keep it simple stupid) concept comes to mind here.

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rui-no-onna · June 24th, 2010, 07:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zedeck

Yeah, and it's not only laptops, but desktops too. The only time I see multiple partitions is when they skip the operating system disk and use a recovery partition that is essentially the disc on the hard drive to reinstall from.

Most users don't even know what partitions are, I'd wager. If they do and/or want a setup as such, they're probably advanced enough to wipe the drive and get a clean Windows install (and without the OEM bloat too). The KISS (keep it simple stupid) concept comes to mind here.

Exactly. A lot of the people I know usually aren't aware of any locations beyond their Desktop or My Documents folder.

gamefreak94 · June 24th, 2010, 08:53

But then they enter into a dilemma when something screws up their OS and they have to reinstall, meaning loosing ALL their data. I think a simple instruction on the manual could tell people to use a secondary partition for storage.

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Princess Garnet · June 24th, 2010, 09:21

That's a poor excuse. People should do be doing real backups, and using partitions are not a proper solution for backups in my opinion.

Honestly, the main things your typical user cares for is probably the "My Documents" folder. Back it up regularly to a CD/DVD. If they can't do that, partitions are way beyond their grasp anyway.

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rui-no-onna · June 24th, 2010, 14:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by gamefreak94

But then they enter into a dilemma when something screws up their OS and they have to reinstall, meaning loosing ALL their data. I think a simple instruction on the manual could tell people to use a secondary partition for storage.

Even if the OS gets screwed, you could still slave the drive on another computer and be able to access data which is what most users are concerned about. If the hard drive dies (I've had quite a few click of deaths, sometimes the freezer method worked, oftentimes not), multiple partitions don't really help.

It's actually easy to "force" users to a secondary partition. You can change the default Documents and Settings folder in winnt.sif or sysprep. That should be a minor thing for OEM's to do. However, there's still the question of how to partition the drive. Do you do 10/90, 20/80, 50/50 or some other weird ratio? The ideal ratio is something only the user can determine based on their own usage and size of the drive.

Besides, if their drive gets screwed enough to require a re-install, that's the time they usually ask other people for help and those "other people" would usually know what to do with the data.

Lasnap · June 24th, 2010, 21:08

if i get a wonky install of windows i just use one of the many linux live cds or dvds out there to help recover any data that the person wants to keep and sometimes the user wants to have linux sence its more secure and cant easily be borked if they never use root.

January 1st, 2010, 15:34	#1
cyclonmaster EmuAddict-_-;; Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sarawak, Malaysia Posts: 2,735	Help me resizing Windows XP Partition C: Ok, I had this laptop with only 1 partition C: with capacity of 300GB. Now I want to split it into 150GB each. How can I do it without gving me trouble formating the operating system and reinstalling XP again? Please advice, thanks. __________________ :::Gadget Dream:::Dropbox::: Win XP SP3 \| Monitor BenQ FP 91G+\|Intel Core i3-530 2.93GHz \| GA-P55-USB3L - GIGABYTE \| Albatron 6600GT 128MB PCI-E \| Corsairs 2GB DDR3 Laptop Lenovo z460 : Win XP SP3 \| Intel Core i5-460M(2.8GHz) \| NVidia G310M CUDA DDR3 1GB \| 2GB DDR3 Memory \| 500GB HDD SATA \| 14.1 WXGA LED Display Please Answer This Survey. Thank You.

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January 1st, 2010, 16:18	#2
Geralt Of Rivia CDProjekt Supporter Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Rivia Posts: 3,112	Have you tried through the disk management ?? Run> diskmgmt.msc

January 1st, 2010, 16:44	#3
gamefreak94 Registered Anime Hater Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 8,678	Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Disk Management > Right-click on partition and click Resize. There's a limit as to how much you can cut off from a partition though. My laptop came with a single 160GB partition too, but I could only slice it down to 75GB before it said the limit has been reached. Off-topic, but I'm BEGGING to know why stupid laptop manufacturers don't partition their products straight from the factory. NOBODY wants a single giant partition on their HD! __________________ "Don't worry about what people think. They don't do it very often." - Anonymous

January 1st, 2010, 23:52	#4
cyclonmaster EmuAddict-_-;; Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sarawak, Malaysia Posts: 2,735	Right click and no "Resize" option. Only "Change Drive Letter and Path". I'm trying SystemRescue Live CD right now. Hope it work. __________________ :::Gadget Dream:::Dropbox::: Win XP SP3 \| Monitor BenQ FP 91G+\|Intel Core i3-530 2.93GHz \| GA-P55-USB3L - GIGABYTE \| Albatron 6600GT 128MB PCI-E \| Corsairs 2GB DDR3 Laptop Lenovo z460 : Win XP SP3 \| Intel Core i5-460M(2.8GHz) \| NVidia G310M CUDA DDR3 1GB \| 2GB DDR3 Memory \| 500GB HDD SATA \| 14.1 WXGA LED Display Please Answer This Survey. Thank You.

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DinJerr keeping it real Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Koala Lumpur Posts: 770	Assuming you have XP 32-bit, you can try this: EASEUS Partition Master is Magic FREE Partition Manager Software for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7. Free for home users. I normally use it to prepare partitions for Linux. __________________ Deader than the walking ones. DarkNite : i5 2500K @ 3.7 Ghz \| Gigabyte GA Z86XP-UD3P \| 8GB DDR3 1600 \| Leadtek WinFast 560Ti 1024 DDR5 \| Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCI-E \| Corsair 60gb SSD for Win7 \| SEAGATE 1 tb 32MB for Win8 CP \| Envision P2373DL 3D LED Satty: Samsung ATIV SmartPC Pro 700T \| i5 @ 2 Ghz \| 4GB DD3 \| 120gb SSD \| 3G Evo ED: HTC Evo 3D \| 16GB on SD

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gamefreak94 Registered Anime Hater Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 8,678	Gparted is the best (its the partitioning tool integrated into System Rescue Disc) __________________ "Don't worry about what people think. They don't do it very often." - Anonymous

January 3rd, 2010, 22:36	#7
cyclonmaster EmuAddict-_-;; Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sarawak, Malaysia Posts: 2,735	I'm using gparted. It's asked me to chkdsk the C: first, then I did. Now resizing it from 300GB to 150GB. Success, reboot and now I cannot enter windows XP. Tried to fix it with XP CD, enter recovery mode and "fixmbr". Still can't do Before I format this drive, any other solution? Thanks. __________________ :::Gadget Dream:::Dropbox::: Win XP SP3 \| Monitor BenQ FP 91G+\|Intel Core i3-530 2.93GHz \| GA-P55-USB3L - GIGABYTE \| Albatron 6600GT 128MB PCI-E \| Corsairs 2GB DDR3 Laptop Lenovo z460 : Win XP SP3 \| Intel Core i5-460M(2.8GHz) \| NVidia G310M CUDA DDR3 1GB \| 2GB DDR3 Memory \| 500GB HDD SATA \| 14.1 WXGA LED Display Please Answer This Survey. Thank You.

January 3rd, 2010, 23:34	#8
Titus03 Registered MSX user Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ? (In PAL-area) Posts: 1,620	Did you make sure that you didn't swept unmovable data during resizing? I don't think it's possible reason, because that data is usually located near the beginning of the partition. Hard to say. I had similar situation a couple of years ago and I learned that it's dangerous to resize XP-partition. But we'll try our best to help you. There is still hope. Don't format yet. __________________ DESKTOP: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @3.0GHz · ASUS Commando · 4 GB DDR2 800MHz RAM · EVGA GeForce GTX 560 1024 MB · Corsair 620W 620HX 4x Seagate 320 GB HDD · Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion · Windows XP Pro SP3 32-bit / Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit LAPTOP: Toshiba Satellite Pro A300-293 with Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit

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Lasnap Elven-Dragon Mage Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,870	did you defrag the hardrive first? you may of wiped clean some files needed for windows to run. if your not careful you can easily bork your os and be unable to recover from it prorpaply so a reinstall is mandatory at times __________________ Love Knows No Bounds!

January 4th, 2010, 10:45	#10
cyclonmaster EmuAddict-_-;; Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sarawak, Malaysia Posts: 2,735	Oh! crap. I think I better format it now. The partition already mess up. __________________ :::Gadget Dream:::Dropbox::: Win XP SP3 \| Monitor BenQ FP 91G+\|Intel Core i3-530 2.93GHz \| GA-P55-USB3L - GIGABYTE \| Albatron 6600GT 128MB PCI-E \| Corsairs 2GB DDR3 Laptop Lenovo z460 : Win XP SP3 \| Intel Core i5-460M(2.8GHz) \| NVidia G310M CUDA DDR3 1GB \| 2GB DDR3 Memory \| 500GB HDD SATA \| 14.1 WXGA LED Display Please Answer This Survey. Thank You.

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Silenus Pilgrim Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Hyperion Posts: 6,872	I don't know why people recommend Gparted when you are using MBR as default. Gparted is best when you are trying from scratch, that happened to me when trying to dualboot. So better format and make your partitions from scratch now. __________________ DELL XPS 13 ULTRABOOK ...Mis sueños son mentiras que algun día dejarán de serlo...

June 24th, 2010, 06:54	#13
Princess Garnet From Love and Limerence Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,555	Yeah, and it's not only laptops, but desktops too. The only time I see multiple partitions is when they skip the operating system disk and use a recovery partition that is essentially the disc on the hard drive to reinstall from. Most users don't even know what partitions are, I'd wager. If they do and/or want a setup as such, they're probably advanced enough to wipe the drive and get a clean Windows install (and without the OEM bloat too). The KISS (keep it simple stupid) concept comes to mind here. __________________ "The heart has it's reasons that reason knows nothing of."

June 24th, 2010, 08:53	#15
gamefreak94 Registered Anime Hater Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 8,678	But then they enter into a dilemma when something screws up their OS and they have to reinstall, meaning loosing ALL their data. I think a simple instruction on the manual could tell people to use a secondary partition for storage. __________________ "Don't worry about what people think. They don't do it very often." - Anonymous

June 24th, 2010, 09:21	#16
Princess Garnet From Love and Limerence Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,555	That's a poor excuse. People should do be doing real backups, and using partitions are not a proper solution for backups in my opinion. Honestly, the main things your typical user cares for is probably the "My Documents" folder. Back it up regularly to a CD/DVD. If they can't do that, partitions are way beyond their grasp anyway. __________________ "The heart has it's reasons that reason knows nothing of."

June 24th, 2010, 21:08	#18
Lasnap Elven-Dragon Mage Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,870	if i get a wonky install of windows i just use one of the many linux live cds or dvds out there to help recover any data that the person wants to keep and sometimes the user wants to have linux sence its more secure and cant easily be borked if they never use root.