g1s partition confusion

Hi everyone,

1st of all, i know that the solution is somewhere but somehow...i couldn't find it

So, on my new g1s, i have "2 hard drives"; one named Vista and another one Data. The Data one is empty. How can i reduce the size of the Vista one and move all non-vista related files to the Data one?

Hoped i made myself clear and sorry again for creating a new thread.

 

1. Click on the Start Button and right click on Computer and select Manage.
2. Expand the Storage section and select Disk Management.
3. Right click on any partition and select either Expand or Shrink to change the size of the partition.

I suggest moving the "My Documents" folder and anything non OS-related into the data partition, so make sure you size it appropriately.

~ Brett

 

thanks for the info! i managed to shrink my Vista disk but i cannot put the free space i gained on the Data disk...

 

Yes, you are correct, you cannot expand the partition using Windows. For that, use another software. I recommend BootItNextGeneration. Check my XP Guide on how to get a bootable ISO CD image for that.

Boot from the CD, choose NOT to install on the HDD, instead just run the software. Then select Partition Work, and resize the D: partition so that it starts from the end of C:

About moving My Documents: there are special steps you need to take to ensure that Windows knows your My Docs folder has a different location. I do not know them because I am using my own Documents and Work folder, but probably a google search will help you. ("Move My Documents" or something similar)

 

thanks E.B.E qlthough i'm a bit lost, i'll give your program a try.

 

Eh, once you start up the utility, it will be pretty self-explanatory.

I suggest BootItNG over other, perhaps simpler, options (like FDISK) because (a) it's free and (b) it handles NTFS partitions very well.

 

Hmm, I thought Vista's disk manager allows for non-destructive resizing of any partition... hmph...

~ Brett

 

Shrinking, yes. Expanding where the start of the partition has to be moved left, no.

At least from my experience.

 

hi again everyone
to be honest, i haven't got the time to look at the programs you've recommended...

just to sum up my situation: i now have 1 drive which is 90Gb instead of 160Gb.......

so; can BootItNG still help me?

thanks a lot for your help, really appreciate it!!!!!!

 

BootItNG can still help.

I assume you have free space after the Vista partition which is now 90 GB? You can create a partition there even without BootitNG, just using the Vista partition manager.

I recommend you get a friend who knows his way around computers to help you though, I don't want you to kill your Vista installation.

 

yea that's probably what i'll do!!! i dnt need, for now at least, the full 160Gb!!
but thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!

 

If you follow my suggestion, you will get use of the full 160GB.

Assuming that:
- the harddrive is structured as follows
{ Vista Partition, 90GB } {Free Space, 70GB}

What I propose is:
- that you create a partition in the Free Space using Vista's Partition Manager, thereby having:
{ Vista Partition, 90GB } {Data Partition, 70GB}

You could also do the following with Vista's partition manager:
1. shrink Vista to a more reasonable size, thereby having for instance:
{ Vista Partition, 50GB } {Free space, 110GB}
2. create partition in the free space, thereby:
{ Vista Partition, 50GB } {Data partition, 110GB}

Also be aware that you will not have full 160GB on the harddrive, because Marketed 160GB = 160 000 000 000 bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 149 binary GB. Furthermore there might be a recovery partition which will take some space (usually around 5GB) from this.

 

Hi, again I apologise for my lateness...

However I did try some few manipulations to solve my problems but couldn't do it. As for your (E.B.E.) instructions, I couldn't follow them because my hard drive is structured as so:

7.81 Gb unallocated
89.43 Gb (VistaOS (C )
51.81 Gb unallocated

What can I do? Also, I've been considering a formatting (to do a clean Vista install) but I felt quite stupid when I could not even do that....

I've got an Asus G1S. I've tried F9 while booting as the booklet suggest but they only ask me to choose which OS to boot there....

Please help me (again!)

 

I would use the Gparted livecd to allocate the extra space as an NTFS partition and then place my documents and all the other shell folders there. Gparted is super-simple to use.

~ Brett

 

Yup, just get my hard disk partitioned using it. But you need to be careful using it. Check this http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/

 

Thanks, this looks exactly what i need. I'll give it a try and post back to keep you informed.

thanks a lot to all of you.