Re: OT: a Win XP "trap for amateurs"?
- From: bok118@xxxxxxxxx (Gerard Bok)
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:58:52 GMT
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:29:23 GMT, Michael <NoSpam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Last month I installed Win-XP ... for the first time. The last Win I had
experience with was v3.1, and a lot has changed since then, apparently. I put
the OS and about a dozen video card & motherboard apps. in a 2 GB partition of a
700GB drive; the rest of the drive is unpartitioned. Data is on a separate hard
drive.
Now the 2 GB Win-XP partition is bursting at the seams and I want to expand it.
But no!! Can't expand the OS partition, says Win-XP. So am I well and truly
screwed? Or is there a way to increase that 2 GB partition *WITHOUT*
re-installing Win-XP and all those apps? (^%$#! Micro$oft ... mutter-mutter!)
1) This is a question for a Microsoft or Windows group.
Nothing to do with electronics.
2) Always read the instructions before installing an OS.
If you did, you would have known that you should not --and
often even cannot-- install XP in a 2 GB partition.
Try 20 GB at least.
3) If you have access to an imaging program (like Norton Ghost or
Acronis True Image) you can save your installation.
(By making an image, resize the partition and writing back the
image.)
Otherwise, you need a partition resize program, like
PartitionMagic or Acronis Partition Expert. But using them would
still require a backup, as it might go wrong :-)
--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok
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