Hi Folks (andapologies for cross-posting)
I've always had a good experience with 'fips' when using it to back Windows into a suitably restricted space prior to installing Linux. However, on these occasions it has been effectively a virgin preinstalled Windows with which I have done little or nothing.
I'm now wondering about using 'fips' to resize some Windows partitions amongst themselves, this being a Win installation which has been actively used for years, and has a lot of user files and extra installed software, so this situation is beyond my experience.
The situation is possibly complicated by the fact that the Windows partitions are not all distinct primary partitions: some are "logical" partitions within an "extended" partition.
(In effect the aim of the exercise is to increase the size of C: at the expense of "E:", "F:" and "G:" and to re-allocate space amongst the latter, in the presence of a partition "D:" which is on a different drive and would have comwe out as "G:" were it not for a re-assignment of drive letters under software control ...
If anyone has experience of going down this road I'd value hearing about it!
(Sorry, too, for being somewhat off-topic!)
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:14:51 +0100 (BST), Ted Harding ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
I'm now wondering about using 'fips' to resize some Windows partitions amongst themselves, this being a Win installation which has been actively used for years, and has a lot of user files and extra installed software, so this situation is beyond my experience.
The situation is possibly complicated by the fact that the Windows partitions are not all distinct primary partitions: some are "logical" partitions within an "extended" partition.
Can't you just use two PCs networked together rather than try and mess up a working system?
Otherwise, if you don't think FIPS is up to the task borrow a copy of Partion Magic after making a total back up of all your data (which you were going to do anyway, weren't you?)
Good luck! Tim.
the main problem will be that just shrinking your windows partitions won't give you any more usable space, it will leave small gaps between them instead.
i'm fairly sure fips and parted don't support moving windows partitions, so I think maybe you're just better off cheating and buying a new disk, recreating the filesystems as you want now, and copying the data across.
Ewan
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:14:51 +0100 (BST), Ted Harding ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Hi Folks (andapologies for cross-posting)
I've always had a good experience with 'fips' when using it to back Windows into a suitably restricted space prior to installing Linux. However, on these occasions it has been effectively a virgin preinstalled Windows with which I have done little or nothing.
I'm now wondering about using 'fips' to resize some Windows partitions amongst themselves, this being a Win installation which has been actively used for years, and has a lot of user files and extra installed software, so this situation is beyond my experience.
The situation is possibly complicated by the fact that the Windows partitions are not all distinct primary partitions: some are "logical" partitions within an "extended" partition.
(In effect the aim of the exercise is to increase the size of C: at the expense of "E:", "F:" and "G:" and to re-allocate space amongst the latter, in the presence of a partition "D:" which is on a different drive and would have comwe out as "G:" were it not for a re-assignment of drive letters under software control ...
If anyone has experience of going down this road I'd value hearing about it!
(Sorry, too, for being somewhat off-topic!)
Best wishes to all, Ted.
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] Date: 20-Sep-04 Time: 18:14:51 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
I've never used FIPS before, but have recently used partition magic to do a exactly what you describe, and it worked perfectly.
Parted seems like it might do the same job too. Look here: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html#example
Cheers
Dave
(Ted Harding) wrote:
Hi Folks (andapologies for cross-posting)
I've always had a good experience with 'fips' when using it to back Windows into a suitably restricted space prior to installing Linux. However, on these occasions it has been effectively a virgin preinstalled Windows with which I have done little or nothing.
I'm now wondering about using 'fips' to resize some Windows partitions amongst themselves, this being a Win installation which has been actively used for years, and has a lot of user files and extra installed software, so this situation is beyond my experience.
The situation is possibly complicated by the fact that the Windows partitions are not all distinct primary partitions: some are "logical" partitions within an "extended" partition.
(In effect the aim of the exercise is to increase the size of C: at the expense of "E:", "F:" and "G:" and to re-allocate space amongst the latter, in the presence of a partition "D:" which is on a different drive and would have comwe out as "G:" were it not for a re-assignment of drive letters under software control ...
If anyone has experience of going down this road I'd value hearing about it!
(Sorry, too, for being somewhat off-topic!)
Best wishes to all, Ted.
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] Date: 20-Sep-04 Time: 18:14:51 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
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