Partitioning

[Guest]

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Is there any reasonable way to bump the partition size of the boot
partition, when it is an XP "Dynamic" drive?

I bought the latest Norton partition commander which sort of forgot to
mention on the box that "Works with XP Pro NTFS partitions" means "but not
with dynamic drives".....

So, my C is still getting cluttered with junk, and now the free space is
getting unmanagably small.

 

[galen]

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In news:34Gdnf43qvoBVcDfRVn-sA@comcast.com,
Dave VanHorn <dvanhorn@dvanhorn.org> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Is there any reasonable way to bump the partition size of the boot
> partition, when it is an XP "Dynamic" drive?
>
> I bought the latest Norton partition commander which sort of forgot to
> mention on the box that "Works with XP Pro NTFS partitions" means
> "but not with dynamic drives".....
>
> So, my C is still getting cluttered with junk, and now the free space
> is getting unmanagably small.

I don't know of any way at all. You could resize with your Norton product
(used to be Partition Magic) if you wanted but it won't let you change a
virtual drive probably. Take some from another drive and merge it with the
drive that's short on space is my only idea. Other posts may follow but
that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Galen
--
Signature changed for a moment of silence.
Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.

 

[peter]

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Hi,

Pls read Dynamic Disk from this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkb_cnc_klvo.asp


Peter

"Dave VanHorn" wrote:

>
> Is there any reasonable way to bump the partition size of the boot
> partition, when it is an XP "Dynamic" drive?
>
> I bought the latest Norton partition commander which sort of forgot to
> mention on the box that "Works with XP Pro NTFS partitions" means "but not
> with dynamic drives".....
>
> So, my C is still getting cluttered with junk, and now the free space is
> getting unmanagably small.
>
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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> Pls read Dynamic Disk from this link:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkb_cnc_klvo.asp

I didn't see anything there that was relevant, but after fishing around in
that doc a while, this seems to indicate that "no" would be the short
version.

 

[Guest]

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"Dave VanHorn" <dvanhorn@dvanhorn.org> wrote:

>
>Is there any reasonable way to bump the partition size of the boot
>partition, when it is an XP "Dynamic" drive?
>
>I bought the latest Norton partition commander which sort of forgot to
>mention on the box that "Works with XP Pro NTFS partitions" means "but not
>with dynamic drives".....
>
>So, my C is still getting cluttered with junk, and now the free space is
>getting unmanagably small.
>
>

You cannot extend a dynamic disk that is the system or boot volume.

Good luck


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