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    Help: Need live help with Gparted. Anyone around?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by LouArnold, Apr 25, 2009.

  1. LouArnold

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    This is a new laptop. Finally got Gparted running
    I need to have my hand held for a bit.

    I want to enlarge the C drive and divide the D drive up as follows:
    C drive 70 to 97 GB
    D 69.5 to 30 GB
    Plus E, F, and G of 4 GB each.

    Can you help with the process?
    Do I delete the current D drive first and then enlarge C?

    PS: This uis Gparted LiveCD V0.4.4-1.ISO downloaded from SourceForge - bless their hearts.
     
    LouArnold, Apr 25, 2009
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    I think that would be the best way to do it, delete the D:, the resize C:, then split the rest into 4gb partitions.

    But, I don't think vista will see more than 4 partitions.

    So if you've got C;, D:, there is also the hidden recovery partition and acer instant on. So you have 4 partitions, so i'm not sure whether it will work, or whether vista will "See" all the partitions you've made.
     
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    Well, my first question is why do you need so many partitions. Excessive partitioning can actually slow hard drive paritioning. I would recommend having 2 partitions, C and D, with C for all system files and applications, and all personal files on D.

    You should first shrink the D drive, and then enlarge C. Then, in the empty remaining space, create 3 partitions with 4GB each.
     
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  4. LouArnold

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    Ah, Bangert, good to see you back.
    There is no instant-on partition that I see. Just the hidden, C, and D partitions.
    I suppose there is no hard in trying.

    Is there a calculation factor to go from GB to MB (69.5GB = 71193MiB as per Gparted)?
     
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    But Gparted reports that the C drive has the boot flag, so I assume that has the boot sector there - hopefully at the beginning.
     
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    1gb = 1024mb

    As midnight sun says, 2 partitions is a good way to go, but I guess it's up to you.
     
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    Thats where your main O/S is so yes, thats where the boot sector will be.

    You should be OK extending the partition.
     
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    What about new partitions. The D drive was "primary" are the others "primary"?
     
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    Yep, you were right... only 4 primary partitions.
    Beyond E, I assume I can make extended partitions? or is there a drawback to this?
     
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    Set them to logical drives, and see if they can be seen.
     
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    Hmm, it won't let me create any more partitions at all. How does this work...go back to E and make it large and then create logical drives from that?
     
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    Give me 5 mins, i'll just boot up gparted on my machine.
     
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    Moving ahead abit... will I need to reformat the now enlarged C Drive partition?
     
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    No, it should be ok. Once you restart windows, it will do disk scan, but should then work as normal.
     
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    OK, I worked it out. 4 partitions are permitted - 3 primary and one extended.
    The extended one I made 12GB and then split it into 3 logical 4GB drives.
    Any other suggestions?
     
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    Foooy. I have to apply the operations and they failed part way through. Let me apply them 1 by 1
     
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    Basically, the way you've done it should work.

    That will be the only way you can create more than 4 partitions.

    The only other thing you could do if it won't work, is to get an external HDD.
     
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    That's it, All is well. Windows booted, did the disk scan and then came up fine (at least so far- hehehe). The results are:
    C: 97 GB
    D: 30GB,
    E, F and G all, 4 GB.
     
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    Excellent, glad you've got it all sorted out!!!
     
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    Do I now recover the factory settings from the hidden partition?
     
    LouArnold, Apr 25, 2009
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    OK. No reply to the recovery of factory (hidden) settings.

    That ends this thread...the next is picking a free auto uninstall program.
     
    LouArnold, Apr 25, 2009
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    I don't think you can recover just the factory settings from the hidden/restore partition. It's either all or nothing. Honestly it's better to use the hidden partition to make your DVD Restore discs (preferably 2 copies, just in case!) and wipe the partition so you can free more space.
     
    gersto, May 1, 2009
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