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Win 7 Partitions.
20-09-2011 9:05 PM
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I have had considerable help in Mac & Linux which naturally think of using gparted and ext4 formats and may well be the way to go. But some information from the M$ point of view will be welcome. I have found the "shrink" option in Disc Management which shows plenty of elbow room but the usual limit of 4 Primary partitions looks like a problem to be overcome. I have Administrator status to my surprise!
Views please.
C.
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20-09-2011 9:22 PM
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If you intend to modify your Windows 7 partition in any way, make sure you have a Windows 7 install disk or, at least, a start-up repair disk as any changes may prevent windows 7 from booting until you run a start-up repair (I found out the hard way and since my install was a downloaded upgrade which did not provide a bootable install disk I had to obtain a start-up repair disk before I could get back into Win7).
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Re: Win 7 Partitions.
20-09-2011 9:30 PM
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This may be the answer http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/ however there is a nasty kick in the teeth
Quote The problem is that if you resize your boot/system partition, you will be completely unable to boot without repairing windows.
A bit of digging indicates that it should be possible but only after a full defrag to clear all the files away from the end so that the bit you are shrinking doesn't have any files in it.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/f258f9d5-ff50-4668-83e9-5da4c612...
Re: Win 7 Partitions.
21-09-2011 10:25 AM
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Re: Win 7 Partitions.
21-09-2011 12:03 PM
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I have my Mint 11 discs but not yet played with them. Reading the various topics certainly puts the mockers on using Vista, must have been the biggest M$ booboo since ME! I may be naive but I hope that Win 7 is a lot better in these respects. My HD is SATA with 500GB, previous experience with gparted and IDE drive with only 30GB which had a serious sit and wait time while the files were shuffled, indicates that all day is in prospect! I have the recovery disc for Win 7 which I made during the first few runs. I assume that is what is need to go back to square 1. Is there any option to record a similar disc as a return to a later state?
No news about the background to my C drive partition.
PS I hope that I have not offended some of you by posting this lot but I thought that words of alternative wisdom might be forthcoming!!
C.
Re: Win 7 Partitions.
21-09-2011 12:13 PM
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Quote from: colintivy I see that this partition has blue diagonal lines as a background, does this indicate that it is extended?
Boot I think.
Shrink (partition) is a standard feature of Disk Management in W7, quick & effective. As stated a thorough defrag increases the likely space.
4 partitions is indeed the normal limit.
(I just shrunk my active W7 partition by 35GB and re-expanded it again while typing this!)
Re: Win 7 Partitions.
21-09-2011 12:23 PM
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From what HP S has just said use the M$ tool and shrink it then there should be no issues.
You also need to (re)move one of the small partitions to get an extended on in there.
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21-09-2011 4:53 PM
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1. System NTFS 199MB 165MB free. 2. C NTFS 446GB 398GB free. 3. D Recovery 19.46GB 3GB free. 4. F HP Tools FAT32 99MB 89MB free. All are Primaries.
I think that the HP Tools could be parked somewhere and reinserted when the shrinking of C is over and allocating the spare space as Extended for Mint 11. Any ideas about this?
I have been tackling the changes to my old XP machine and have successfully mounted a new HD as disc 1 without any difficulty. The built-in Disc Management program allowed me to partition it using half its 160GB capacity to NTFS with a view to putting everything presently in disc 0 (which is chockablock at 8GB) into disc 1. During this I noticed that the diagonal lines within the partition merely indicated the selected partition, little problem solved? Ultimately I intend to install a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 controller board and run the discs from its two outputs and scrap the small HD and put in another 160GB drive. Later I will remove the CD ROM and replace it with a DVD/RW which looks like a hard drive for connection.
Must be getting cocky in my old age!
Thanks to you all. No doubt more later!
C.
Re: Win 7 Partitions.
21-09-2011 6:43 PM
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Quote from: colintivy 1. System NTFS 199MB 165MB free.
2. C NTFS 446GB 398GB free.
3. D Recovery 19.46GB 3GB free.
4. F HP Tools FAT32 99MB 89MB free.
All are Primaries.
Never seen anything like that before!
I'd check what they're all for and how you access/use them before doing anything.
At most I've seen 2 partitions used by a manufacturer - for diagnostics (extension of BIOS functionality usually) and factory restore.
The first is usually a few MB, the 2nd a few GB.
You seem to have a 3rd one.
Ah, it might be this: http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/10408-whats-100mb-partition-can-i-delete.html
(I installed all my W7's on pre-partitioned disks so didn't get this)
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22-09-2011 5:06 PM
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22-09-2011 6:08 PM
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If you move them/it off and create an extended partition, then install Linux leaving the required space for them at the end then just restore them if you feel the need or leave them off totally.
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23-09-2011 12:53 PM
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23-09-2011 12:56 PM
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From what I've seen it's maybe not going to be that easy.
A clean reinstall of Windows, if you can do that, WITHOUT the System partition, would be my preferred route.
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23-09-2011 8:33 PM
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Apparently it is now the norm for OEMs to have rescue partitions rather than a rescue disc.
Microsoft are trying every avenue to make use of a second OS difficult!
Fortunately I have my Linux OS's on an external hard drive....
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23-09-2011 11:34 PM
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Quote from: Heloman Apparently it is now the norm for OEMs to have rescue partitions rather than a rescue disc.
Don't such systems provide the software and documentation to create rescue disks from the rescue partition?
If one creates rescue disks and verifies they work, can't the rescue partition be deleted?
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