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Resize Scenarios
- Creating a new partition to detach operating system from the rest of data
Let's assume that you're a rank and file user who is most likely to have only one hard disk with only one partition (the only partition is always system). To secure yourself against a system malfunction or a virus attack you've got nothing to do, but make a backup of the whole partition, which besides the operating system itself contains all your family photos, favorite films and music, program distributives, whatever. As a result you'll get a very huge backup image. You can easily tackle this issue however by detaching your operating system from the rest of data.
To create a new partition on your hard disk, please do the following:
1. Click the Express Create Partition item of the Wizards menu.
2. On the Wizard's Welcome page, click the Next button.
3. Choose a method you find the most suitable to create the partition. The wizard is especially designed to minimize your participation in finding an appropriate place for it and its resulted size. The only thing you're to do is to choose between several modes. The most relevant thing here is the amount of space that will be allocated for that partition. For easy perception, you can see the resulted disk layout on the disk map by selecting this or that mode.
4. That's basically it. By clicking the Next button the wizard will start modifying your disk layout. If you've got to do with the system partition resize, like we do in our case, you will be asked to restart your computer in a special boot-up mode to accomplish the operation. So click the appropriate button to agree.
5. In the Progress window you can see in real-time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment.
After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see the newly created NTFS partition. Now you've got a place to keep your stuff apart from Windows.
Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space of an adjacent partition
Let's assume you've got several partitions on your hard disk. After installing a number of resource-consuming applications and system updates your system partition has started to suffer from the lack of free space. But an adjacent partition has a plenty of redundant space. That's just enough to make your system partition suffer no more.
To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from an adjacent partition, please do the following:
1. Click the Express Resize Partitions item of the Wizards menu.
2. On the Wizard's Welcome page, click the Next button.
3. Click on your system partition. By doing that, the wizard will automatically select an adjacent partition as well. This partition will later act as a space donor.
4. Increase size of the system partition with the slider or manually by entering the required value. Please note, when you change size of one partition the size of the other will be changed as well, thus redistributing the unused space between the partitions.
5. On the next page of the wizard you need to confirm the operation by selecting the appropriate option.
6. That's basically it. By clicking the Next button the wizard will start modifying your disk layout. If you've got to do with the system partition resize, like we do in our case, you will be asked to restart your computer in a special boot-up mode to accomplish the operation. So click the appropriate button to agree.
7. In the Progress window you can see in real-time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment.
After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see that your system partition is bigger now.
Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space from any other
Let's assume you've got several partitions on your hard disk. After installing a number of resource-consuming applications and system updates your system partition has started to suffer from the lack of free space. But one of your partitions has a plenty of redundant space. That's just enough to make your system partition suffer no more.
To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from any other on-disk partition, please do the following:
1. Click Switch to Full Scale Launcher in the Express Launcher.
2. In the main window select the required hard disk (if several) on the Disk Map.
3. Choose a space donor partition and then call the context menu for it (right click of the mouse button) to launch the Move/Resize dialog.
4. In the opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the right by the drag-and-drop technique. While doing this, free space from the partition will be released (displayed in aqua-green). You can also do it manually by entering the exact size of free space. Click the Yes button to continue.
5. Now you've got a block of free space to add to the system partition. You cannot do it directly however, but by carrying out a number of extra move/resize operations.
6. Since the block of free space is within the extended partition, you need to take it out first. The program enables to resize the extended partition only when there's a block of free space adjoining its borders. In our case it's between two logical disks. So we need to move it. To do that, please select the first logical partition and then call the context menu for it (right click of the mouse button) to launch the Move/Resize dialog.
7. At first shift the right edge of the partition to the right, then do the same with the left edge. Make sure the partition size has been left unchanged.
8. Now you can resize the extended partition to take the block of free space out of it. Call the context menu for it (right click of the mouse button) to launch the Move/Resize dialog.
9. In the opened dialog shift the edge of the extended partition to the right.
10. The block of free space has been released.
11. Now you need to move the second primary partition just the way we did it with the logical partition to make the block of free space adjoin the system partition.
12. Finally increase size of the system partition. Call the context menu for it (right click of the mouse button) to launch the Move/Resize dialog.
13. In the opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the right, thus increasing its size.
14. Apply all introduced changes. By default, our program works in the virtual mode of execution, so you have to confirm all operations to let the program accomplish them. To do that, just click the Apply button on the Virtual Operations Bar.
15.The program will require the system restart to accomplish the operation in a special boot-up mode. Click the appropriate button to agree.
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