1 Topic by mts-fi (edited by mts-fi 2007-03-11 16:50:59)

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Topic: [SOLVED]Can't resize FAT32 partition

Hello!

I have acer laptop with 40 GiB hdd.

/dev/hda1, FAT32, 2.93 GiB (acer recovery)
/dev/hda2, FAT32, 16.97 GiB (windows c:)
/dev/hda3, extended, 17.36 GiB, now unallocated... (before FAT32, windows d:)

I'm trying to make Windows partition (/dev/hda2) bigger but only thing I can do, is make it smaller.

Am I missing something here?

Please help!


Yes I missed good instructions found in here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/tips/gfs.htm

Thank you for great tool!

2 Reply by LarryT

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Re: [SOLVED]Can't resize FAT32 partition

Any screen shot would be much appreciated :-p

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Re: [SOLVED]Can't resize FAT32 partition

In a 40 GB HD you only have about 37 GB.
Your 16 Gb FAT 32 is a primary partition, and it can't rezise across the Extended 17GB

You must rezise or delete the extended 17 GB to make space for the primary partition.

Then you can rezise the 16 Gb FAT 32.

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Re: [SOLVED]Can't resize FAT32 partition

I am having a similar problem. I installed Xubuntu on an aged laptop - but it was just too old to take it! Xubuntu install squeezed my C: drive (FAT 32 Windows 98 system). I have successfully restored boot to the drive and I have used GParted successfully to remove the Linux partitions. I can/have taken up all the free sapce into the second (D:) partition of my drive. But if I shrink that - with it placed "to the right" with unallocated space between the two logical drives I still can't get hda1, the C: drive, any bigger. GParted doesn't give me the option of growing it, even when there is unallocated space after it. I guess there is something I'm missing, but I can't see what.
Ideally I need the space on the C: drive as it is squeezed very tight at the moment. I know it's an old laptop which could be pensioned off, but it has sentimental value - and I won't let this beat me!

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Re: [SOLVED]Can't resize FAT32 partition

Ahh!I see now. I was resizing dev/hda5, but I wasn't also resizing dev/hda2. Once I resized them both I could grow hda1 to fill the space - of course. smile

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Re: [SOLVED]Can't resize FAT32 partition

(moved to the support section)

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***