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Topic: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

Hi everybody,

I am running out of space on my c drive on my xp machine so i got about 10 GB of unpartitioned space on my harddrive i want to use to add to my c partition.  However, i can't get my ntfs partition to grow can anyone help me with this.  Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

yeah, sure. but give details please. Any screen shot of the GParted layout would be nice

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3 Reply by Yousefabbasi (edited by Yousefabbasi 2007-04-12 21:00:25)

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

err, im having the same problem.

i have 2 partitions, 1 100 megs, 1 7 megs, and 13 unallocated.

i can create a new one with the 13, or grow the 7 (D:) to 20... but i cant grow C: (100) to 113...

i originally partitioned the space off C, now i cant put it back!?

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

Can you please provide us with some details?
Preferably some screenshots

thanks.

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

Id love to, its just I can't figure out how!

Live CD, i press screenshot, it takes it, it says saved to root..

where do I retrieve, lol?

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

The best is usually to have a look at docs :-p
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/ti … etails.htm

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Spykill/gparted.jpg

as you can see, the partition has a max size of 90g

but you can see theres an unallocated like 20g

i wanna stick that 20g back on the 90 for 110g..

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

So I MUST say, one MORE time : look at the docs, please smile
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/tips/gfs.htm

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

I love you so incredibly much right now smile

Yeah, I always tell people stuff like that on other support forums, so I feel like a real jerk now... :S

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

no problem wink

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

thanks guys for the help I looked at the help docs section but I did not see this.  Thanks for everything

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

Yousefabbasi wrote:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/S … parted.jpg

as you can see, the partition has a max size of 90g

but you can see theres an unallocated like 20g

i wanna stick that 20g back on the 90 for 110g..

I'm having very similar problems to this (and yes I did read all the documentation). In my case for some reason the 'Free space preceeding' box is grayed out and i can't move the last partition. Thus, the unallocated space stays at the end and is useless since i need it on the first partition. any idea what's wrong?

Thx

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

Nothing wrong:
In the  case of the figure, we can
- move the hda5 to the end of the extended partition hda2
- resize the extended partition (shrink) to leave unallocated space between hda1 and hda2
- expand hda1.

I would do each step itself, rebooting in windows after each resizing.

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

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

Thanks for your help...hopefully my next login will be thru linux then smile

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Re: cant grow the size of my NTFS partition on XP

Please read the documentation and take backup of valuable data.

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