Resizing Partition-Will my Data be deleted.

Dman001

I want to resize my partition using EaseUS Partition Master, but will my data be deleted during the process? I dont have anything to back up my data.

Trivarion

You can resize a NTFS partition without destroying the data. I don't know about the application you mention. I generally use a bootable CD or USB key with GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php). You should always back up your data beforehand to another PC or hard drive as things can (and sometimes do) go wrong. There are plenty of free backup programs like DriveXML (http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm) which would do the job.

There are plenty of tutorials online for Gparted like: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/

Capt'n Midnight

always backup your data especially if shrinking a partition

probably ok if extending an ntfs partition within windows using the built in disk manager otherwise use one that doesn't run within windows


partition magic didn't earn the nickname partition tragic for nothing and it's not the worst out there , can't say I've heard of the program you are using

Fuzzy Clam

I have used EASEUS 4.0 home edition with no problems with lost data. I will admit that it was on a new build PC with little data to lose but what there was remained intact.

xsiborg

i use easus partition master home edition (the free one) to manage my partitions and i would have backups of all my data anyway, but usually what i do anyway is defragment a drive before i use easus to do any resizes or moves, its worked for me since windows xp FAT32 and NTFS and i use it regularly on windows 7, it's never lost any data on me yet (YET, because i wont say it COULD happen), but i find it works very well and very simply, so i would suggest a defrag first and then go for it...

i only thought of it there now but i also use easus data recovery wizard professional on customers computers which is ridiculously good at recovering data, often when a customers laptop has physically damaged clusters on it, data recovery wizard can still read the drive in RAW mode and recover files, or even full deleted partitons from months beforehand, after another partition has been created on top of it! just thought i'd throw that in there!

Dman001

Actually thinking of it now, the drive I want to shrink is practically full so I would be stupid not to back it up. Many thanks guys for the help.

Just a quick question though, as it stands my HDD is partitioned into two 70GB drives. If I shrink one (the one named D fro example) to say 10GB, will my C Drive automatically gain the 60GB or will I have to do something to do this?

xsiborg

nope, what will happen is that the C: partition will remain at 70GB, the partition will become 10GB, and then you will have 60GB "unpartitioned space".

what you will then have to do is move the partition to the end of the drive, and extend the C: partition.

then you will end up with a 130GB C: partition, and a 10GB partition.

all click and drag mouse work, but might take half an hour after a reboot to complete all operations...

Dman001

Cool cheers guys, many thanks.