I want to migrate to a larger hard drive. I can copy the boot partition to the new hard drive successfully, but can not enlarge it to the larger disk size. Help.
Expand Vista 64 Boot Partition...
- Thread starter funkeyro
- Start date
Night Hawk
Vista Guru
You can copy but still need a drive partitioning tool in order to expand or shrink an existing partition. If you are using a disk imaging software the best results are seen when transferring onto an identical drive. On a new larger drive you would generally create a brand new primary and then make a backup image from that later.
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom built desktops =2 Toshiba replace HP laptop
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 975 Deneb core 3.6ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
- Memory
- Kingston Hyper X 1.5v DDR3 PC12800 1600mhz 16gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI Radeon HD 5750 1tb
- Sound Card
- Creative X-Fi XtremeAudio PCIe
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus 19" HP 20" second lcd main HP 20" remote pc.
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900, 1600x900 main - 1600x900 2nd desktop
- Hard Drives
- WD Black Edition 1tb Sata II -2
WD SAS "Heavy Duty" RE class 2tb - 2
External usb/eSata WD Black 1tb main -1
External usb only WD Green Power 1tb -1
- PSU
- Corsair 750w 750TX main - Corsair 600w remote
- Case
- Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible eSata ports 2 - NZXT Vulcan 2nd
- Cooling
- Zalman CNPS9900A cpu, twin front 120s, top 200cm, rear 120
- Keyboard
- AZIO Ilumminated keys gaming keyboard/volume control usb
- Mouse
- MSI Interceptor D200
- Internet Speed
- 30mbps upgrade
I have purchased Paragon's Partition Manager 9.0 and also Spotmau 2009. Neither one can enlarge the boot partition on a Vista 64 machine. Neither can window's "Boot Manager" function.
My Computer
Night Hawk
Vista Guru
I would suggest going for GParted live instead since the partitions are still NTFS since only the kernel is 64bit in Windows. GParted is cross platform for various OSs besides Linux and Windows as well. The latest stable not beta 0.4.1-2 release is seen at SourceForge.net: GParted: Files
You can see for yourself it's quite a capable tool for working with drives. GParted -- Features
You can see for yourself it's quite a capable tool for working with drives. GParted -- Features
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom built desktops =2 Toshiba replace HP laptop
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 975 Deneb core 3.6ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
- Memory
- Kingston Hyper X 1.5v DDR3 PC12800 1600mhz 16gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI Radeon HD 5750 1tb
- Sound Card
- Creative X-Fi XtremeAudio PCIe
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus 19" HP 20" second lcd main HP 20" remote pc.
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900, 1600x900 main - 1600x900 2nd desktop
- Hard Drives
- WD Black Edition 1tb Sata II -2
WD SAS "Heavy Duty" RE class 2tb - 2
External usb/eSata WD Black 1tb main -1
External usb only WD Green Power 1tb -1
- PSU
- Corsair 750w 750TX main - Corsair 600w remote
- Case
- Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible eSata ports 2 - NZXT Vulcan 2nd
- Cooling
- Zalman CNPS9900A cpu, twin front 120s, top 200cm, rear 120
- Keyboard
- AZIO Ilumminated keys gaming keyboard/volume control usb
- Mouse
- MSI Interceptor D200
- Internet Speed
- 30mbps upgrade
Thank you very much. GParted did the trick as advertised. Also, Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2009 is reported to be able to do everything I needed as well.
My Computer
Night Hawk
Vista Guru
Whether it's 64bit or a 32bit edition of Windows the partition itself still remains the same. You'll find that GParted is a very versatile tool there and doesn't run into any software issues since you boot with it live.
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom built desktops =2 Toshiba replace HP laptop
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 975 Deneb core 3.6ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
- Memory
- Kingston Hyper X 1.5v DDR3 PC12800 1600mhz 16gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- MSI Radeon HD 5750 1tb
- Sound Card
- Creative X-Fi XtremeAudio PCIe
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus 19" HP 20" second lcd main HP 20" remote pc.
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900, 1600x900 main - 1600x900 2nd desktop
- Hard Drives
- WD Black Edition 1tb Sata II -2
WD SAS "Heavy Duty" RE class 2tb - 2
External usb/eSata WD Black 1tb main -1
External usb only WD Green Power 1tb -1
- PSU
- Corsair 750w 750TX main - Corsair 600w remote
- Case
- Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible eSata ports 2 - NZXT Vulcan 2nd
- Cooling
- Zalman CNPS9900A cpu, twin front 120s, top 200cm, rear 120
- Keyboard
- AZIO Ilumminated keys gaming keyboard/volume control usb
- Mouse
- MSI Interceptor D200
- Internet Speed
- 30mbps upgrade