1 Topic by jfoster

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Topic: General support

As I have never used GParted before, I was wanting to get some general assistance with resizing my partitions.

Once I boot from the GParted live cd, what I would like to do is expand the C drive with space I gained from installing an additional hard drive which is now configured. Do I move the partition parameter of the C drive all the way to the right?

Do you have any screenshots of this operation?

Thank you.

2 Reply by class413

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Re: General support

It is not possible to "add" space from one hard drive to any partition located in another hard drive.

It is possible to re-arrange partitions in a hard drive to make unallocated space next to a partition, so that we are able to grow that partition.

With a new hard drive, it is possible to copy there amount of our data. This manner we could perhaps to shrink a partition and gain the unallocated space I mention above.

It would be possible to copy (move) partitions from a hard drive to another. However, this could trouble somehow the situation, especially in the case you have software installed in the partition you move.

You can find advice on partition modification, in the Documentation page
http://gparted.org/documentation.php
in particular in the "Help manual" and "Man page".
There are some older help files too, but I'm afraid they are outdated in some degree, because GParted did change largely since then.
The main purpose of GParted is to modify existing partition, to set some attributes on these partitions (like "bootable", "LBA" etc), and delete/create partitions and partition tables.

As far as I know, the only way to "merge" the space of 2 or more hard drives is the RAID configuration. However, this needs a rather high level of knowledge and expertise in information technology and operating systems, and needs to reinstall the operating system. Furthermore, special hardware is needed, too (a special RAID controller).

(moved to the Live Media section)

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

3 Reply by Allnsmth (edited by Allnsmth 2011-03-01 12:43:12)

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Re: General support

Hi,
If Windows won't allow the changes you can use a Gparted boot disk to change the partitions. If you will be changing the main Windows partition backup anything important - it's rare but things can go wrong. Altering the partitions can be risky, be careful and know what you are doing - there is no Windows safety option when using this - if you tell it to format the Windows partition it will do so and delete the entire Windows installation.