Resizing an NTFS Partition and dud cables
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OK I bought a new hard drive yesterday and have installed it, now I want to delete the second partition off my original drive and increase the C drive size. I am using Windows XP and did a bit of googling and was wondering if anybody has had experience using this program[^] by way of this CD-Rom[^]? Or are there better ways of doing it? (I have a 40GB drive and want to increase the 15GB C partition to as close to 40GB as possible) Also in regards to bad cables, yesterday when I tried installing the drive as the slave on my UltraATA cable it always failed during bootup, but worked fine under Safe-Mode. This morning I replaced the cable and it all works fine now, so I inspected the old cable and noticed a 2-3mm long gap in one of the cables in the cable. I would have thought that if there was no physical means of transferring electrical signals to and from the drive that windows wouldn't have been able to work in Safe-Mode either. How come it did work? Thanks, Chris.
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OK I bought a new hard drive yesterday and have installed it, now I want to delete the second partition off my original drive and increase the C drive size. I am using Windows XP and did a bit of googling and was wondering if anybody has had experience using this program[^] by way of this CD-Rom[^]? Or are there better ways of doing it? (I have a 40GB drive and want to increase the 15GB C partition to as close to 40GB as possible) Also in regards to bad cables, yesterday when I tried installing the drive as the slave on my UltraATA cable it always failed during bootup, but worked fine under Safe-Mode. This morning I replaced the cable and it all works fine now, so I inspected the old cable and noticed a 2-3mm long gap in one of the cables in the cable. I would have thought that if there was no physical means of transferring electrical signals to and from the drive that windows wouldn't have been able to work in Safe-Mode either. How come it did work? Thanks, Chris.
Chris Ormerod wrote: I am using Windows XP and did a bit of googling and was wondering if anybody has had experience using this program[^] by way of this CD-Rom[^]? Or are there better ways of doing it? (I have a 40GB drive and want to increase the 15GB C partition to as close to 40GB as possible) You can always give it a try on a Virtual PC machine or on a cloned machine... Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dump people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:
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OK I bought a new hard drive yesterday and have installed it, now I want to delete the second partition off my original drive and increase the C drive size. I am using Windows XP and did a bit of googling and was wondering if anybody has had experience using this program[^] by way of this CD-Rom[^]? Or are there better ways of doing it? (I have a 40GB drive and want to increase the 15GB C partition to as close to 40GB as possible) Also in regards to bad cables, yesterday when I tried installing the drive as the slave on my UltraATA cable it always failed during bootup, but worked fine under Safe-Mode. This morning I replaced the cable and it all works fine now, so I inspected the old cable and noticed a 2-3mm long gap in one of the cables in the cable. I would have thought that if there was no physical means of transferring electrical signals to and from the drive that windows wouldn't have been able to work in Safe-Mode either. How come it did work? Thanks, Chris.
Powerquest partitionmagic works like a charm. as long as there are no serious errors (physical) on your hard drive, everything should go "like childsplay".