Resize and Move Partitions in Windows Vista Without Fear

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

You probably know that tinkering with the partitions in Vista could lead to big problems like refusal of your machine to boot. But nature has it that every problem has a corresponding hack. Vista has a built in tool that helps you with the resizing of your partitions, the diskmgmt.msc. But when you want to move your partitions around, that's another story that needs some help from outside Vista. I know what you are thinking about but don't think about Partiton Magic because this tool is useless with Vista. There's a better tool that works well with Vista, GParted. This free tool "allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents". GParted, allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, check and copy partitions, and the file systems on them. Before attempting to use this software on your machine read the instructions carefully here because tampering with your partitions is not child's play.

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Gem said...

Great find. I haven't messed up with Vista though.

I don't think nature has always provided a corresponding hack. It is the people who decide their use their talents or skills to provide solutions to a problem. Like having this software written.

Yes, doing such partitions is not for the faint of heart. A backup is always needed.

September 10, 2008 at 6:40 PM

Pastilan said...

I just want to think that there's a corresponding hack to anything he he he Even when I was a child i was into hacking appliances to see what's inside of them and what makes them tick. I successfully reduced a very expensive stereo component system into a useless junk after I opened it and "looked under the hood" and "touched' some parts. I was ten.

September 10, 2008 at 8:24 PM

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