Partitioning progarm that allows resizing existing partitioins w/ a UEFI BIOS

[videobruce]

Existing HDD with three partitions (one active) from a conventional BIOS to a UEFI based BIOS
The 1st partition is only 10GB. I want to double it for Win7 (no games, non O/S files are stored outside the active partition. I don't need any more room). The 2nd & 3rd are storage that I want to keep. The extra 10GB would come from the 2nd partition.

Switching from a conventional BIOS to UHCI, is that any problem for non active partitions as far as loosing data and having accessibility?

I have been using EaseUS & Partition Manager, but neither will allow me to resize an existing HDD's partition without wiping the entire drive. I haven't tried GParted yet.

I'm looking for a program that I can boot from. Input?

(I hope that made sense, ask if it didn't)

 

[Kursah]

After service packs and MS Office and such my old Win 7 takes up around 37GB (includes my years-old Users folder account with saved games). So many partitions on one drive is kind of old-school. Honestly I see little need anymore for most users, though I run a seperate SSD that is now partitioned because I run Win 8 Pro x64 and Ubuntu 13.04 x64.

Partition Magic should work, Gparted should work as well too. How big is your drive overall? When you are moving free space between hard drives it's recommended to backup all the data because there can be failures or if a power outage happens during what can be a several-hour transfer, you're done.

I have used Acronis for similar things iirc, I'm pretty sure GParted is one of the best utilities to use though.

Hope that helps at least a little!

 

[Jetster]

Windows 7 with no Page and restore shut off takes 18 Gb. Why would you partition to 20 Gb? There is no benefit. Back your system up. Reformat correctly and restore. Better yet clean install. And if you have an SSD you dont need to partition your programs just your data.

But the latest copy of Partition Magic should do what your asking

Try Hiren's boot disk

 

[Frick]

You want more than 20GB. This isn't the 90's.

I've used Partition Magic like that in the past. Don't know if Gparted can do live resizes.

 

[videobruce]

1. I have already loaded Win7 64 bit on a 10GB partition and it took up less than 7GB.
2. I don't use M$ add ons (surely not Orifice)
3. I never had anything that large in "the 90's" (actually 1999). My 1st drive was 6.4GB and I had that partitioned.
4. But all of that is a moot point that could change.

I haven't tried GParted yet nor Partition Magic. I was hoping that Partition Manager would work, but I didn't see a way.

I will look into this Hiren's boot disk which I never heard of before. I do have the Ultimate Boot CD. Thanks.

 

[qubit]

Hard Disc Manager from Paragon Software will do all this and a whole lot more.

(Sorry for sounding like an advert. )

 

[videobruce]

I believe I have this, How is that different from Partition Manager?

 

[Frick]

It probably lets you do "live" resizes, which is what you want.

 

[qubit]

I believe I have this, How is that different from Partition Manager?

You're not sure if you actually have this program? Seriously, how can you not tell?

Just compare the feature differences on the Paragon website. In short though, Hard Disc Manager is the fully featured version of Partition Manager.

 

[videobruce]

Simple, I don't have every program I have installed.

"Live" resizes??

 

[kn00tcn]

while i do say that size is too low, you can always ntfs junction your way out of running out of space, which is what i started doing on an 80gb vista partition

too many punk apps stick their junk in appdata, one of the stupidest was visual basic, you tell it to install to another drive yet MORE THAN HALF of its final usage was still on the windows partition! disgusting

 

[Hood]

Upgrade From 5.25" Floppy Drive

1. I have already loaded Win7 64 bit on a 10GB partition and it took up less than 7GB.
2. I don't use M$ add ons (surely not Orifice)
3. I never had anything that large in "the 90's" (actually 1999). My 1st drive was 6.4GB and I had that partitioned.

Hard drive capacity has never been cheaper, it's about 4 cents per Gigabyte - I think you can spend more than 80 cents for your Windows partition. If you're that cost-conscious (CHEAP), you should be using Linux, it's free and takes up less space than Windows. In fact, I had a bunch of 6GB and 20GB IDE drives that I just threw away - if only I had known that people still use them, I could have made....$5! Such a shameful waste...

 

[Frick]

DSL is nice.

 

[videobruce]

I had DSL for years, but I have CATV broadband now. That was what you were talking about wasn't it?

That doesn't seem to fit the bill.