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Re-size Vista system partition?

by roopie Apr 3, 2007 10:30PM PDT

My 80-gig hard drive has 2 partitions. Is it possible to re-size the Vista system partition? I upgraded from Win2k and am rapidly running out of space on the C drive-- less than a gig left, which is not good. I was able to shrink the D partition using Vista's DIsk Management utility, but this utility doesn't seem to work to expand the system partition, C. Partition Magic 8 will not work on Vista either. Can anyone provide me with a clue here?

Thanks for any and all assistance!

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by mrjallouli Apr 4, 2007 2:26AM PDT

if you resize the vista partition with a program other than the Vista utility, Vista won't boot. it happened once for me , i have used the free GPARTED LIVECD and this made me say "Goodbye Vista" and back to XP.

i think that i saw an article somewhere describing how to cheat with this Vista annoyance, maybe a tool called something like ntfs-resize, . Google for it!