[plug] Windows 2000 question - expanding partition
Richard Meyer
meyerri at westnet.com.au
Thu Jun 22 23:09:27 WST 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 18:53 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Richard Meyer wrote:
> >> Does Win2k have a drive manager like WinXP ?
> >
> > Drive manager? I've never heard of such a thing. Any details before I go
> > and Google 3,000 things that are not what you were talking about ;-)
> >> If so use that to increase the size of your partition after you have
> >> moved other partitions out of the way.
> >
> > Give me a detail or two and I'll give it a serious look in the morrow,
> > please.
>
> Do yourself a favour.. download and burn the gparted boot cd (about 34M) and let it do the dirty
> work for you.. you can remove/resize hda2&3 and then just expand your ntfs partition to fill the gap.
> Honestly it's the dogs bollocks when doing stuff like this...
>
> <insert usual disclaimer about making comprehensive backups here>
>
> Brad
Will qparted actually _expand_ a Win partition? That sounds like FM!!!
(which stands for F*ing Magic)
Really - no BS??
That'd be exactly what I wanted.
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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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