• Made a mistake partitioning
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For some terrible reason, I made my C: volume 15 gb out of my availible 1 tb. I've quickly realized how dumb this was, and have futilely tried to repartition. Windows 7's built in Disk Management is unable to extend C:, even though there's unassigned space. I've tried Partition Magic and Paragon, however my disc is dynamic so neither work. I'm desperate for help.
You can't expand a Windows boot partition that also contains the pagefile. Your best solution would be to reinstall Windows.
15gb is fine to install windows on? Its a good idea to make a separate partition for data, so in case windows goes apeshit, you can easily install without losing data.
For the idiots that keep rating me dumb and disagree: [url]http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements[/url] I point your attention to "Minimum requirements for x86 version: [B]16 GB.[/B] and minimum requirements for x86_64: [B]20 GB.[/B]"
Download Partition Magic. It's available for free on The Pirate Bay. And it's legal too since it was discontinued and is now abandonware.
[QUOTE=Motoko Kusanagi;29827829]Download Partition Magic. It's available for free on The Pirate Bay. And it's legal too since it was discontinued and is now abandonware.[/QUOTE] Just because something is abandonware, doesn't mean it's legal to illegally obtain copies of it.
[QUOTE=bohb;29821486]You can't expand a Windows boot partition that also contains the pagefile. Your best solution would be to reinstall Windows.[/QUOTE] Hi person that does not know you can expand and shrink the windows partition while it is not mounted. Get some partition program, run it, set the fucked partition to format and have it unallocated then have the new space merge with the windows partition. It has to be a external program because the virtual disk service can not keep the partition mounted and change the size of it.
[QUOTE=jordguitar;29850536]Hi person that does not know you can expand and shrink the windows partition while it is not mounted. Get some partition program, run it, set the fucked partition to format and have it unallocated then have the new space merge with the windows partition. It has to be a external program because the virtual disk service can not keep the partition mounted and change the size of it.[/QUOTE] Let me rephrase my post: There's no straightforward and easy way to resize a primary Windows partition with a swapfile on it. You have to use 3rd party tools that usually aren't free, it's a pain in the ass and reinstalling Windows is faster and easier. If he made a 15 GB partition and Windows installed on it, it's very likely he didn't install anything else on it due to not having space left, so nothing is lost.
I have extended and made partitions smaller with Partition Magic, or maybe I used an Acronis product, i'm not really sure. I think Acronis will work. (You will need to buy it, but there may be free version available somewhere else)
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