Expanding Partition

[Disturbedguy]

Hey guys,

I want to expand my PS partition by around 5 - 10gb, I made a stupid mistake and made it a little to small so for that reason and getting those annoying messages you get saying space is low, I need to increase its size.

So can anyone recommend any applications that will allow me to do this without the possibility of data loss?

Cheers in advance,

[Veyron]

I've used Acronis Disk Director to resize partitions, no problems.

Alternatives: Lifehacker: EASEUS Creates and Manages Hard Drive Partitions for Free or Repartition your hard drive with a Linux live CD

Though I would still backup to another drive or to other media beforehand. Defrag the partitions too.

[Zak33]

In Vista I THINK you can just increase it

Right Click My Computer, and choose MANAGE.
Double Click Storeage, and then Double Click Disk Management

FInd the disk, and the partition in the lower part of the screen, and right click on it and EXTEND VOLUME.

That's what I did, and so far, so good.

[FRISH]

i had vista but the partition manager was a bit rubbish so i used easeus's partitioner. vistas only let me partition by a couple of gig and about 10 gig (maybe a bit more i cant remember) after defragging.

[Splash]

i had vista but the partition manager was a bit rubbish so i used easeus's partitioner. vistas only let me partition by a couple of gig and about 10 gig (maybe a bit more i cant remember) after defragging.

...which is interesting, as I increased one of my partitions by about 200Gib. As far as I can tell the only restriction is the amount of free space on the volume.

That said, it's safer (though not 100% risk free, so backup first) to go the LiveCD route - boot from a recent distro's livecd and use GPartEd to move/resize partitions while they're not mounted.

[FRISH]

well i guess its not bad for everyone then, i just googled it and didnt find a proper answer apart from defragging which only released a little (or maybe quite i bit) more, then used easeus which did the whole 250 i wanted partitioned.

[Splash]

Defragging doesn't really release space though - if you don't have room on the disk it can't make some available, and under Vista there's usually a low priority defrag job that runs at idle anyways, so fragmentation shouldn't really be a massive issue.

[Disturbedguy]

So does anyone recommend acronis?

[Giraffe]

I've recently adjusted 4 partitions in XP using PartedMagic 4.1. Booted with it and it's easier than using PartitionMagic.

[Splash]

So does anyone recommend acronis?

I've used it in the past, but to be honest when there's a tried and tested method that's easy to use and £Free I find it hard to recommend anything else.

[Disturbedguy]

Nvm was a stupid question...pooh guess ill have to go find me discs.

[Splash]

You would, yes. The thing is that because the filesystem isn't mounted this way is less risky than doing the operation on a live filesystem.

[Unique]

i've used easus partition manager a few times with no problems, easy to use, legal and free

http://www.partition-tool.com/

[FRISH]

Nvm was a stupid question...pooh guess ill have to go find me discs.

yes easues doesnt need to burn to disc (well u have to pay to do that lol). But yeah i just used it in vista and rebooted and there was my partitions.