I need some help with HDD partitioning. I'm totally new at this, but I went ahead and tried it. Basically, I was trying to move all my data files such as documents, music, pics, and videos, into a separate partition. I am starting to have a load of problems right now, one of which is that my browser freezes for a few seconds, as it just did, and then returns to normal. I have W7 64bit home premium.
I used W7 disk manager. So what I did was shrink my C: drive (it’s 250GB), which took out about 38GB, leaving my C: drive with 183GB with an available 40GB left. It was the max I could shrink. With this unallocated space I created a new Data G: drive. I then transferred over music, documents, pics, and some videos over to the new G: drive and proceeded to delete them off my C:/Users/x files and set the library location for each one in the new G: drive instead of the old users/x.
So my initial plan was to move files to G:, delete off C:, shrink C:, then expand G:, but it failed since I could not expand the G: drive after shrinking the C: drive. I had no idea about the limitations that the unallocated space had to be to the right of X partition in order for X partition to expand, at least with W7 disk manager.
So I proceeded to download and some disk managers but to no avail. Acronis apparently didn’t support W7, EASEUS did not support 64bit (not the home version), and now I’m trying to use partition wizard, but it failed. I have the slightest idea about what’s going on.
So I just decided to clean up my space in the C: drive so I could shrink it some more and proceeded to delete some games that I don’t play anymore, which is were Bioshock 2, RE5, Bioshock 1, and some other crap. Bioshock 1 is where I hit a problem. It wouldn’t delete and I got an error message something about I/O device error (0x8007045D). I researched this and it was mostly about backups, so I didn’t know what was going on. The BioShock folder had something in there that wasn’t allowing me to delete, so I proceeded to delete files separately, and ended up with one folder left, which is the Sounds_Windows folder. My HDD gets especially slow when I try to get into this folder, as even right clicking takes a minute or so to open the menu. Anyway, through what I looked up, it says a way to resolve might be to use chkdsk, and if that didn’t work, try to shrink or extend the volume so that it’s moved to a new area, but it didn’t work either.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952272 <---
“To work around this issue in which the last cluster has gone bad, you can shrink or extend the volume by several megabytes to move the last cluster of the volume to a different area. Then, you can run chkdsk again.”
Now I’m here stuck, wondering to do and it might be this area that’s causing all my third party partition managers to not work.
Any help?
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If you dont want to move them and then delete you could cut and past them. ctr + x from C: and ctr + v on the folder in J:. It is a different partition table to unlike moving files from one folder to another folder on C the files need to be read and then written. So its slow. No way around this.
Only way of avoiding to shrink and copy and shrink more would be to user an external drive to save the data and then doing one big shrink and then copy all from external to J.
Almost all programs should be able to use J drive. There are a few badly written programs that might insists on storing things on C drive. But for iTunes and others you can simple tell it to create the library on J drive.
If you go to your music library on top you should say 'Includes: X locations' if you click on that you can remove the folder on C drive and add the J drive folder. This will not move any files so make sure you move everything before doing so. After your done you can delete the folder on C. Its not needed. Repeat for movies and any other library you are using. -
I am really in need of dire help here as it's slowing down the rest of my computer.
Help with hard drive partition
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Chango99, Feb 24, 2010.