Solved New boot partition

I will start at the beginning as think always the best way.

My first disk has partitions C/D

My C drive is rapidly running out of space 30GB allocated to C on a 160GB drive rest is drive D

I want to resize it so I've got about 60GB on C

Windows will not let me shrink the D drive, and then expand the C drive, as it has page files on it.

So what I have done using Acronis is clone Disk C/D to another much bigger disk, creating partions E/F. What I would like to do is now make the first partition E, which is a clone of C, bootable so that I can then format partitions C/D then reclone E/F back to C/D after sizing them more prudently.

I cannot find how to make E bootable if in fact it is?

Thanks

if e has an operating system installed on it, then you can install a bootloader. try easyBCD.

Try Partition Wizard freebie. If the page files are in the way, you've got 4 GB. Disable paging until you configure your partitions the way you want. I used to make a bunch of custom partitions and keep C: small but seems like everything you install has to put just a little more crap on C: for some reason. The required space keeps creeping up. I gave up and just run a big C: and don't mess with it anymore.

defragment hdd, try perfect disk. dont disable paging, bad idea as some programs use lots of ram and its essential to windows programs

If you have a clone image already why not use a bootable CD to create the partitions as you like and then re-image ? ?

The Acronis bootable CD will do this...

In my experience re-sizing images with data on them is a bit risky anyways...

Katokato said:

if e has an operating system installed on it, then you can install a bootloader. try easyBCD.

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Done that and yes worked very well. So now booting off the cloned disk. So back to my original problem of C not being big enough. Couldn't extend C until D was empty.
I deleted volume D and extended C all okay so far.

Problem now is cannot clone back onto original disk as it now only has one partition.

How do I get the second partion back?

Thanks again

Okay now got that sorted.. Acronis still doesn't want to clone itself back, so am attempting to format the old C. How the hell do I do it as all I get is access denied etc etc

Use a bootable partition manager like the free Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to boot computer directly ...

Or boot the vista dvd and use diskpart commands to format the partition.

Now got that sorted, managed to clone back to original disk.

Boots up past user password screen then screen shows revolving circle and message

Preparing desktop after around 3 m inutes it reverts to a blue scree with only the mouse arrow showing. This doesn't clear.

Any ideas?

Hi,

Sounds like the drive letter in the system registry has changed.

D/l the free FREE Rescue Kit Express | PARAGON Software Group

Boot the Pargon cd . Select Normal Mode > Boot corrector >Correct drive letters in registry.

Make sure the o/s letter is the same as it was originally ( probably C).

Finally got there with a lot of huffing and puffing and Acronis.

Thanks guys for your inputs