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2007-11-18: Resized my Windows partition (C:)

When I installed Windows, I had made the mistake of installing Windows to a partition with only 4 GB. I figured that would be plenty for Windows (I had a separate 20 GB partition for Programs and a 150 GB partition for Data). Alas, Windows is a space hog and it grows over time. As of 2007-11-18 14:10, my C:\Windows directory is 3.90 GB (4,188,321,026 bytes).

I kept running out of space on my C: partition, and some software would refuse to install because there “wasn’t enough space”.

Thankfully, Gparted allows one to resize NTFS partitions and it worked flawlessly for me. I booted into Linux, unmounted all of the partitions on sdb, resized my extended partition and added free space before it (this required that I first resize the first partition within the extended partition, adding free space before it), then resized my first partition (C:), making it grow to use all of that free space I just caused to be unallocated. All 3 of these operations were performed at the same time (well, sequentially, probably, but to the user, it appeared as 1 giant operation).

(The results of this can be found in gparted_details.html?)

After that completed, I rebooted into Windows, and it asked to check the disks, so I let it.

Hardware

Tyler / My computer 2005-11-13

Tyler / My computer 2005-11-13 edit

Dead / no longer using / got rid of

Item Price Purchase date / Source Comments
MSI RS482M4-ILD Mainboard

  • Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon64/64FX/64X2 processor (Socket 939)
  • Supports 4 184-pin DDR SDRAMs up to 4GB memory size
    • Dual Channel DDR400*/DDR333 DDR SDRAM
  • Ultra DMA 66/100/133 operation modes; Can connect 4 Ultra ATA drives.
  • Serial ATA/150; Can connect up to 4 Serial ATA drives
  • 8 Channel software audio codec Realtek ALC880
  • 1 VGA; 1 DVI-D port
  • 1 PCI Express X 16 slot
 $80 2005-11-13 / Newegg
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939P CPU (Retail) $135 2005-11-13 / Newegg
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) $90 (now $55 [1]) 2005-11-13 / Newegg
Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200-RPM 8M SATA hard drive – ST3250823AS (OEM) $107 2005-11-13 / Newegg

My GNU/Linux system

To do

  • My software stack (What programs I have installed)
  • Backup plan
  • etc.