windows partition

jedijeff123

jedijeff123

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is there an application i can use to change the size of my hard disk's partition? when i installed windows, i created a 10gb partition that was thought to be for windows, turns out it was for everything else.
 
With a partitioning program like Partition Magic or another retail software or maybe the free to download Linux partitioning tool known as the Gnome Partition Editor with a live for cd version called GParted you grow, shrink, create, delete, and even move partitions. Have a cd or dvd burner? The Linux tool does take a little bit to get used to however. But it's effective.

If you were running Vista and not XP you wouldn't even need a partitioning software but simply use the new Disk Management utility to shrink or grow partitions as well as create, delete, or reformat them. For burning GParted onto a cd-r and making that a bootable disk you will need a program that does this with iso type disk images.

BurnOn has a free version that has done well here for GParted and other Linux tools even distros. http://www.burnworld.com/burnoncddvd/

The last release of GParted that doesn't have need for a special mount of a folder/directory for the new automatic video card detection is the 0.3.3.0 release number #6 down from the top of the loooooong list seen at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828
 
Being that Linux is an open source OS everything ncluding their own drive partitioning tool GParted is free to download at any time! BurnOn can be downloaded and used free. But it will open up an IE window once the burn is finished with the offer to buy the full version. Besides that annoyance it works great for burning Linux live for cd distros as well as GParted. The rest of the partitioning tools seen available are generally a retail product.
 
To find out just what partitions are currently on your drive a quick trip into the "Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management" tool will show the hard drives, partitions on them, and cd/dvd drives as well. If you only made a single 10gb partition on the 120gb sata shown in your signature GParted will expand that right out to full capacity. You are probably out of drive space for virtual memory explaining why things won't run at this point.
 
Now that you have a new partition created with GParted the next and actual first step is to go into the Disk Management tool and right click on that partition in order to format it. This will make it usable and assign a logical drive there. You can also use the same right click menu to assign a different drive letter if preferred.
 
with gpated you can make NTFS partions or fat32. i use fat32 for compatablity. windows should automaticaly detect it and assign drive letter.
 
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diroga said:
with gpated you can make NTFS partions or fat32. i use fat32 for compatablity. windows should automaticaly detect it and assign drive letter.
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Using Fat32 for XP an NT cored OS? While XP will easily install onto Fat partitions and offers backwards compatibility NTFS is far superior over Fat for a partition type. There's no more dos hiccups from dos system file errors to put up with. Fat also has other limitations like support for large capacity drives, one version can't read and access the next newer one while 2000 or XP can read off of Vista NTFS partitions.
 
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