Re: Increasing hard disk partition sizes.

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On May 14, 2:55 pm, Weatherlawyer <Weatherlaw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 14, 9:18 am, "Ronaldo" <private_ema...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



According to the description in Majorgeeks: Visopsys installs on a CD
quote from the majorgeeks download page: "It boots from a CD or floppy disk
and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating
system".

That is why it "seems to want to open with Nero 7". And in case you don't
have Nero 7, you can probably use any version of Nero which you can install
for a trial period of 15 or 30 days depending on the version.

And you can delete the boot option from the failed installation.. Open the
Boot.ini file in: Control Panel\System\Advanced Options\Start &
Recovery\Settings\Edit\and delete the line that describes thepartition
where the failed installation files are. Your boot.ini file should look
something like the following, just make sure you delete the correct line of
you may not be able to start the computer.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

And you can restore the "hal.dll" from the Windows XP CD.. Insert the CD and
go to C:\WINDOWS\inf\hal.inf, > right click on the "hal.inf" file > select
install... the hal.dll file will be copied from the CD and installed in the
system32 folder.

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"Weatherlawyer" <Weatherlaw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensajenews:1179122825.125587.154130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On May 14, 12:20 am, "Ronaldo" <private_ema...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> The systempartitioncan only be resized with a specialized program. But in
the meantime you could redirect personal files and settings to

anotherpartitionso you can increase valuable free space in the C:\ drive.
To> redirect the My Documents folder, you can do it in Start\My
Documents\Properties\type the path to a folder on anotherpartitionor use
the buttons to find the location.. or edit the registry to move the My
Documents and other profile folders (read the article), then change the
default location for saving Office files in Tools\Options of the
application's menu and those that don't have the option can be redirected
with a registry edition as described in the following articles.

Registry key where you can make the default relocation of files.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

Folder Redirection.http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/det/skel.en.html

User Profiles and Folder Redirection

FAQhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/management/manage_fa...

How to use Diskpart.exe to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, in
Windows XP, and in Windows

2000http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590/en-us

Functionality restrictions of the Diskpart.exe utility to extend system
and
boot partitions in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows

XPhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/886986/en-us

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"Weatherlawyer" <Weatherlaw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió en el

mensajenews:1179094236.317671.214200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have three partitions on my hard drive but hopelessly underestimated
mypartitionsize needs. Stupidly, I made them all 10 GB, which is
good enough for the F: and G: partitions but the C: drive is almost
full. How do I increase them without wiping the C: drive?

I can quite easily move the entire contents of either F or G drive to
the other one -combining them will only use some 6 GB. The C: drive
holds the operating system and a battery of programmes I use regularly
including some whose default I neglected to set to F: or G:.

I tried using my OS disk which is a pre SP1 CD. and formatted the F
drive (identified as another letter in the process) but couldn't get
it to increase thepartitionsize. I cancelled the process and deleted
the files from thepartitionvia control panel.

Would Fdisk do the job or should I just start again with a new drive?

Thanks for the interest .

I messed around with my old XP version and the F: drive once emptied
then as it was going to be a bust, I cancelled the install.

Now I have to choose between two boot up options the first one failing
due to the absence of <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll which is a pain
but liveable with while I get this thing sorted.

Someone gave me a lead to Pragon but the programme is only an empty
showpiece offered as freeware. I got hold of Visopsys from MajorGeeks
but that sems to want to open with Nero 7 ad that doesn't want to
know.

I seem to be getting stuck on a tar baby.

Thanks for your persistence on my behalf, much obliged. I'll give it a
go and report back, thanks.

The txt code opened was or is:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

Which I changed to:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

Which should bothe stop the wrong piece of code booting up and allow
me to know which is the right piece to delete.

Now I have to reboot to see if I need to buy another computer so I can
get some more help.

.

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