Resizing partitions. Solved by standard means

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Ilya Plotnikov2011-09-25 21:46:52

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Ilya Plotnikov, 2011-09-25 21:46:52

Recommend software to resize two partitions without data loss.
The situation is this. Bought a laptop with a hard drive split in half. 2 months have passed, disk D is completely full, 100 GB is free on C. How can I resize C and D without losing data and harming boot records and Windows in general?

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Cheese, 2011-09-25
@ilyaplot

Is the standard Disk Management snap-in now out of fashion?

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Riateche, 2011-09-25
@Riateche

Gparted from ubuntu live cd (or gparted live cd). In this way, I reduced the system partition of the pre-installed Windows on the laptop. Everything went fine.
I advise you to make an image of the entire disk before experimenting (using dd + bzip2).

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benipaz, 2011-09-25
@benipaz

there is Acronis Disk Director. make a bootable disk in it and resize partitions through it.

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Tesby, 2011-09-25
@Tesby

Use Acronis Disk Director - it has never let me down, only in this case, use the standalone bootable version.

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burdakovd, 2011-09-25
@burdakovd

I recommend Partition Wizard Home Edition .
It allows you to arbitrarily manipulate hard disk partitions, including system partitions (although then you will need to reboot, during the reboot it will do everything you need), while it does not require the creation of a Live CD / Live USB, it is installed as a regular program.

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tick, 2011-09-26
@tick

Oh, and what a good program Partition Magic was ... Semantec evil corporation killed the leading player in this market. :(

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omnimod, 2011-09-25
@omnimod

As for the standard means:
If the disk is basic, then you can expand (expand) the partition only to the unallocated space immediately following the partition, if you convert the disk to dynamic, then you can expand the partition using unallocated space in any part of the disk, or use the space of another disk, so-called spanned volume. Similarly, shrinking frees up space at the end of a section.
But I would recommend using third-party tools, as mentioned above - Acronis Disk Director, or Paragon Partition Manager.

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Sergey Savostin, 2011-09-25
@savostin

There is a non-standard solution - a symbolic link of a folder from drive C to drive D.
True, both need NTFS.
I like this tool better (there is a plugin for Total Commander )

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DiegoSable, 2016-06-15
@DiegoSable

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.5 resizes
partitions without rebooting the system.