Partition Problem

guinnessdrinker

I recently bought a Samsung laptop. When I first switched it on it preformed a factory status backup function. This partitioned the hard drive into C and D drives.

However, I stupidly clicked "next" straight away instead of specifying the sizes of the partitions that I wanted which resulted in me getting two 50.9gb partitions. The problem is that the manual states that the partition disk function is only available when the computer is turned on for the first time and is not available afterwards.

Is there anyway I can change the partition sizes myself now or am I stuck with them at that size?

Fysh

You can resize the partitions, but the ease with which you can do it (and the associated risk of losing data) depends on the filesystem you've used on there. If you've used NTFS, you can use ntfsresize from a Linux live cd for free or you can buy a copy of PartitionMagic and use its bootup utility. The risk of compressing active partitions is that you may render them unusable.

machalla

Try gparted livecd. Its fairly straighforward.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Download from here.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-0.3.7-7.iso?modtime=1215010676&big_mirror=0

It supports non-destructive NTFS resizing. Alternatively run ubuntu as a livecd and use gparted from that.