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    Asus g51 x1a Partition Question

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by sylentnX, Jan 1, 2010.

  1. sylentnX

    sylentnX Notebook Enthusiast

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    As you all know, when you buy them, at least from newegg, it comes with 2 partitions. Vista64 and DATA, both split down the middle in size (roughly). Anyway, I've put Steam on the DATA partition, and its nearly full now. I have 80gb left on the first partition (Vista64) and was wondering if there was anyway I could combine them or anything w/o losing any data on either partition. I don't wanna have to re-download all that stuff, or reformat my computer entirely. Thanks in advance. :)
     
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    Yes, in Vista you can resize partitions on the fly; first you shrink the V64, then expand the other partition. Look up how in the online help... it's in Disk Management I believe. You'll need to defragment your V64 partition before resizing, and I'd make a backup just in case. I haven't run Vista for some months now so I'm going by memory... check the help pages for the most current info.
     
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    Only lets me do about 10gb. Better than nothing I guess. I'll look into getting a new HDD. Thanks :)
     
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    Maybe u should try acronis disk director suite.
     
    windyvincent, Jan 2, 2010
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    Option B (the pain-in-the-a** option):

    Backup your V64 partition to external media/drive. Format existing V64 partition. Resize both partitions to suit. Restore backup.

    Be sure the "new" V64 partition is big enough for the restored data.

    I not sure why Windows is only letting you do 10GB now; I suspect the defragmenter could not pack all the data into one contiguous area of the drive because you have some unmovable files scattered about. But the format & restore should solve that problem.
     
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    Doesn't work on win7
     
    sylentnX, Jan 3, 2010
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