Disk Partitioning

Hi all.
 
A question regarding partitions.
 
My machine currently has 2 physical disks inside it.
 
1 is partitioned, C & D.  C is 30Gb, D is about 290Gb
 
C is obviously my system disk, D was my Samples data which I’ve migrated to another drive so it’s currently empty.
 
I’d like to reclaim the empty space and extend the system drive so that it can “see” all 320Gb of the disk.
 
Tried this last night using the standard Windows tools with no success, and even trying it from the command line utility DISKPART wouldn’t do what I wanted.
 
Searching the MS website yielded a couple of factors which might be responsible.
 
1 – It might help to move the paging file to a different location temporarily
2 – Sometimes it’s not possible to extend a system drive beyond its current capacity.
 
Can anyone provide any further tips or pointers detailing how I do this?
 
 
Jonesey

Ok, cheers for that - something else to try eh!!

I used the free Partition Master by Easeus

Glad to oblige!

Acronis has a feature to create a boot cd to run to restore. You can only restore to the same size or larger disk and your new partition would be the same size as the original. Then, you can can resize the partition using a partition software like the one I mentioned.
This is how I replace boot drives in my computers and have never had a problem.
I actually use the disc to create and verify a backup before I swap discs to do a restore on a new disc just to be on the safe side.

Disk partition is required because it will safe the disc to get fully damaged. From these we can give from which partition disk was booting and in which partition we will store the data.

Hi Luteman.

I've sorted it, albeit this is a temporary fix until the day when I can afford to seriously upgrade my rig.

I've kept my original system disc as it was, partitioned between C & D.

C is still quite small at 30Gb, but it's big enough provided I don't put anything else on it.

D is now dedicated to all my Sonar Mixdowns & Exports

Drive E (320Gb) has stayed the same - internal for Cakewalk project files

Drive F (1Tb) was my backup drive - external - this is now dedicated to sample streaming, and I don't get any problems streaming from an external

Drive G (New 2Tb external) is now my backup drive

This took a LONG time to get organised properly - moving sample libraries isn't the quickest task to do, but I took the opportunity to restring a couple of guitars and get them set up correctly.

Thanks for your thoughts mate, appreciated.
 
 
Does anyone have a clue as to what on God's earth, ruby1058 is blathering on about?
 

Really, Fog, your dismissal of ruby's advice is far too cavalier. I for one always safe my drives to get them fully damaged.

I suspect he(she?) may have intended an exposition on the use of the hidden system partition in the default Windows 7 installation as a repository for a repair/recovery environment. If so, there was apparently something lost in translation from his native language. Microsoft's explanation is not that much easier to understand.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799232%28WS.10%29.aspx

A hard disk partition is a storage space defined on an operating system disk drive.Most allow users to partition a hard drive into multiple partitions, the effect of making a physical disk into several smaller logical hard disks.A users may decide to split a hard drive into multiple partitions to organize their data more efficiently. On Microsoft Windows machines, it is common to store the OS and applications on a hard drive partition and user data to another hard disk partition

Sigh...

http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2230427

Nobody here wants harder deejay partitions - you may leave now.