drive partition query

[Guy]

thanks for this... the whole process looks rather painful though

i will give it a go at some point and then come back and tell you all how badly it went!! 

lol

moving the folders that make up the "user" folder; my music, my documents, my pictures etc is really painless, it's all handled by the move folder wizard so as far as the user is concerned the files are still in my documents etc

changing the partition is a little more risky though.

if I just move the destination folders to E: would the user save processes in word, excel, whatever.. automatically default to this location? is there a way to specify this globally?

ideally, yes I would just like to say to the laptop - let C + E = C.. ie. just make C one big drive.. but if I can move all the default 'file saving' locations to E then that might do just as well without having to frig about with changing partitions

[Jay]

Going to try the EASUS tool, will let you know if it works.

[Jay]

F@ck me sideways and call me Shirley 

I've always liked using EASUS' software because it always does what it says on the tin and is easy to use and can cut times but holy cow this free tool is awesome!

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

I managed to shrink a C: create another partition from the now free space, and then Merged the C: and E: WITHIN Windows in under 1 minute! though it needed to restart afterwards to run the tasks and it was on a Virtual Machine in Virtual Box. I'll be keeping that installed then....


As always backup anything you want to keep in the unlikely event it kills the partition and you can't recover the data.


It in action on rebooting:






Update:
Virtual machine won't boot now, gets stuck on the Windows 7 Starting Windows screen  This is why you backup before you do something like this 

[Guy]

F@ck me sideways and call me Shirley 

I've always liked using EASUS' software because it always does what it says on the tin and is easy to use and can cut times but holy cow this free tool is awesome!

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

I managed to shrink a C: create another partition from the now free space, and then Merged the C: and E: WITHIN Windows in under 1 minute! though it needed to restart afterwards to run the tasks and it was on a Virtual Machine in Virtual Box. I'll be keeping that installed then....


As always backup anything you want to keep in the unlikely event it kills the partition and you can't recover the data.


It in action on rebooting:






Update:
Virtual machine won't boot now, gets stuck on the Windows 7 Starting Windows screen  This is why you backup before you do something like this 

so in other words Shirley you're saying don't use this? 

[Jay]

It might be that I had done 3 operations on the partition and it's in a virtual machine, just trying to see if I can use the Windows 7 DVD to repair it.

[_Adam_]

Going to try the EASUS tool, will let you know if it works.

i use this all the time. 100% success rate, and you can do it on the fly which is such a time saver. 

[Jay]

yeah, their software is usually spot on. I'm thinking it was because it was in a VM that screwed it up. or that I performed 3 operations on the same partition without rebooting.