Moving partitions across drives?
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I've a dual boot machine (XP & Vista) currently on one drive. Space is getting tight, so I want to bump Vista onto a new drive. ie: BEFORE: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition][D:VISTA Partition] AFTER: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition] Drive1: [D:VISTA Partition] Anyone know of some reliable tools for 1) moving a partition, and then 2) resizing the partitions? I'm most worried about the first step, since Vista's boot manager will almost certainly be a headache. Push come to shove I'll wipe my current Vista partition & reinstall but I'm hoping for an easier/faster way... Thanks! -- Ian
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I've a dual boot machine (XP & Vista) currently on one drive. Space is getting tight, so I want to bump Vista onto a new drive. ie: BEFORE: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition][D:VISTA Partition] AFTER: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition] Drive1: [D:VISTA Partition] Anyone know of some reliable tools for 1) moving a partition, and then 2) resizing the partitions? I'm most worried about the first step, since Vista's boot manager will almost certainly be a headache. Push come to shove I'll wipe my current Vista partition & reinstall but I'm hoping for an easier/faster way... Thanks! -- Ian
Vista will suck more. SO go with the XP only is my suggestion. Because in my notebook, i have XP only, i tried before with both, but it is very slow and vista sucks more.So i put the vista in my another development Machine and it works fine now.
Regards, Satips.
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I've a dual boot machine (XP & Vista) currently on one drive. Space is getting tight, so I want to bump Vista onto a new drive. ie: BEFORE: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition][D:VISTA Partition] AFTER: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition] Drive1: [D:VISTA Partition] Anyone know of some reliable tools for 1) moving a partition, and then 2) resizing the partitions? I'm most worried about the first step, since Vista's boot manager will almost certainly be a headache. Push come to shove I'll wipe my current Vista partition & reinstall but I'm hoping for an easier/faster way... Thanks! -- Ian
I could be wrong, but I've never seen something move a partition from one disk to another. You could image the vista partition, but you would probably be best off starting from scratch with a fresh install.
Matt Newman
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Vista will suck more. SO go with the XP only is my suggestion. Because in my notebook, i have XP only, i tried before with both, but it is very slow and vista sucks more.So i put the vista in my another development Machine and it works fine now.
Regards, Satips.
Satips wrote:
Vista will suck more.
And why would that be?
Satips wrote:
SO go with the XP only is my suggestion.
Just because you are afraid to move on to new technologies, that doesn't mean that no one else should use Vista.
Matt Newman
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Satips wrote:
Vista will suck more.
And why would that be?
Satips wrote:
SO go with the XP only is my suggestion.
Just because you are afraid to move on to new technologies, that doesn't mean that no one else should use Vista.
Matt Newman
Hey i didn't mention about that no one else should use Vista. It is working fine. But what i said is if we go with partition of the two Vista and XP, vista sucks more. But Vista works fine if it is alone.
Regards, Satips.
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I could be wrong, but I've never seen something move a partition from one disk to another. You could image the vista partition, but you would probably be best off starting from scratch with a fresh install.
Matt Newman
Partition Magic can copy partitions across drives, but it doesn't like Vista (it REALLY doesn't like Vista) for some reason. Was hoping someone knew of an upgraded tool to save the umpteen hours needed to bring Vista back. I think you're right though... I've been preparing for a reinstall. -- Ian
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Hey i didn't mention about that no one else should use Vista. It is working fine. But what i said is if we go with partition of the two Vista and XP, vista sucks more. But Vista works fine if it is alone.
Regards, Satips.
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I've a dual boot machine (XP & Vista) currently on one drive. Space is getting tight, so I want to bump Vista onto a new drive. ie: BEFORE: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition][D:VISTA Partition] AFTER: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition] Drive1: [D:VISTA Partition] Anyone know of some reliable tools for 1) moving a partition, and then 2) resizing the partitions? I'm most worried about the first step, since Vista's boot manager will almost certainly be a headache. Push come to shove I'll wipe my current Vista partition & reinstall but I'm hoping for an easier/faster way... Thanks! -- Ian
ImageX which is a part of Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) can be used for copying and restoring partitions. You can give it a try.
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I've a dual boot machine (XP & Vista) currently on one drive. Space is getting tight, so I want to bump Vista onto a new drive. ie: BEFORE: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition][D:VISTA Partition] AFTER: Drive0: [C:WINXP Partition] Drive1: [D:VISTA Partition] Anyone know of some reliable tools for 1) moving a partition, and then 2) resizing the partitions? I'm most worried about the first step, since Vista's boot manager will almost certainly be a headache. Push come to shove I'll wipe my current Vista partition & reinstall but I'm hoping for an easier/faster way... Thanks! -- Ian
Like some of the other guys above said, try to image the partition and reload it on Drive1. Which of the two operating systems controls the master boot record? Excuse my lack of better knowledge of jargon, but as I understand either one of the operating system installed wheter it's on the same partition or not should handle the dual boot system and give you the option to boot which ever OS everytime you boot up... I installed XP and Red Hat on the same PC (different partitions) once and used XP's dual boot menu to switch between OS's, but when I formatted my XP partition and re-installed the OS I had no idea of how to set it up in that way again and my dual boot system became a single-boot system running only XP. Norton Ghost works pretty well for making images and it has strong compression option if space is a problem.
"you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit "Watching Migthy Joe Young made me hate my life..................................I want a gorilla!" A. Havemann http://www.myspace.com/manicevilnoodle
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Like some of the other guys above said, try to image the partition and reload it on Drive1. Which of the two operating systems controls the master boot record? Excuse my lack of better knowledge of jargon, but as I understand either one of the operating system installed wheter it's on the same partition or not should handle the dual boot system and give you the option to boot which ever OS everytime you boot up... I installed XP and Red Hat on the same PC (different partitions) once and used XP's dual boot menu to switch between OS's, but when I formatted my XP partition and re-installed the OS I had no idea of how to set it up in that way again and my dual boot system became a single-boot system running only XP. Norton Ghost works pretty well for making images and it has strong compression option if space is a problem.
"you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit "Watching Migthy Joe Young made me hate my life..................................I want a gorilla!" A. Havemann http://www.myspace.com/manicevilnoodle
My XP volume (drive C) has the MBR. I've actually managed to get it working, using a roundabout path. I had nothing to lose on the new drive, so I experimented. I used XCOPY (bwa ha ha ha)... :laugh: First I installed Vista from scratch on the new drive. The sole reason was to update the BCD database. Next, I rebooted XP, then reformatted the new Vista drive D. Then used XCOPY (with options /E /C /F /H /R /K /Y /X) to snapshot my old Vista volume onto the new drive. Vista was not happy about that, mainly I suspect, because its drive mapping was all fouled up. However, it got far enough so I could ctrl-alt-del, and start regedit from the task manager. I straighted out the mapping in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices (for some reason it placed itself on drive "H" instead of "D"). Another reboot, a couple minutes with BCDEDIT to cleanup the boot manager screen, and here I am. I really can't recommend this approach. However, it worked. :) -- Ian -- modified at 6:30 Wednesday 16th May, 2007 - xcopy options wern't quite right
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ImageX which is a part of Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) can be used for copying and restoring partitions. You can give it a try.
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My XP volume (drive C) has the MBR. I've actually managed to get it working, using a roundabout path. I had nothing to lose on the new drive, so I experimented. I used XCOPY (bwa ha ha ha)... :laugh: First I installed Vista from scratch on the new drive. The sole reason was to update the BCD database. Next, I rebooted XP, then reformatted the new Vista drive D. Then used XCOPY (with options /E /C /F /H /R /K /Y /X) to snapshot my old Vista volume onto the new drive. Vista was not happy about that, mainly I suspect, because its drive mapping was all fouled up. However, it got far enough so I could ctrl-alt-del, and start regedit from the task manager. I straighted out the mapping in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices (for some reason it placed itself on drive "H" instead of "D"). Another reboot, a couple minutes with BCDEDIT to cleanup the boot manager screen, and here I am. I really can't recommend this approach. However, it worked. :) -- Ian -- modified at 6:30 Wednesday 16th May, 2007 - xcopy options wern't quite right
ied wrote:
I straighted out the mapping in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices (for some reason it placed itself on drive "H" instead of "D").
One would expect an advanced OS such as Vista to be more robust and adapt to a changing environment!
_______________________________________________________________________ "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit "Watching Migthy Joe Young made me hate my life..................................I want a gorilla!" A. Havemann http://www.myspace.com/manicevilnoodle
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ied wrote:
I straighted out the mapping in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices (for some reason it placed itself on drive "H" instead of "D").
One would expect an advanced OS such as Vista to be more robust and adapt to a changing environment!
_______________________________________________________________________ "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit "Watching Migthy Joe Young made me hate my life..................................I want a gorilla!" A. Havemann http://www.myspace.com/manicevilnoodle
evilnoodle wrote:
One would expect an advanced OS such as Vista to be more robust and adapt to a changing environment!
One would hope... At least Vista does manage to boot with the confused driving mappings, which is a point in its favor. Task manager is available, and regedit works also (not much else though). It would be vastly more annoying if it just locked hard. btw, my faith in this copy technique is improving! Vista just successfully applied the latest patchset! :cool: XCOPY must have gotten the permissions & ACL's right. -- Ian -- modified at 7:03 Wednesday 16th May, 2007 - Just noticed Vista is requiring reactivation... by phone... ug! oh well.