A few questions

[MadDad]

I built myself a new computer and installed Win7 64 bit OEM on the 1 tb drive. Disk management will not let me shrink the C drive any smaller than 1/2 tb. I would like to shrink it to 100 gigs and create several smaller drives. Is there any way to do this. It would not be a big problem to start over right now as I have install nothing else. Or, will the latest version of Easus partition manager do it? Also is it possible to remove the 100 gig system restore volume that was created?

Second question. Has anyone had any experience with PCMover? I would be moving programs from a Win 32 bit to the Win 64 bit.

Thanks for any help.

 

[yodap]

I believe Easeus will do it for you. Keep in mind shrinking the c drive will probably take longer (but not too much because you don't have too much data yet) and will probably reboot to make the changes take effect. (normal for Easeus)

Imho it makes sense to try this first before trying to reinstall. As you said, you have nothing to loose.

I have never had a problem doing this type of re-size with EPM.

Good luck

 

[Elmer BeFuddled]

I can also recommend the free Partition Wizard Home. It swapped round, resized and moved 3 partitions on a 320Gb HDD in less time than it took to make a coffee!
The only thing I've ever found you need to watch out for, which is quite logical when you think about it, is to check that your System Restore is up and running correctly when you've finished (if you use it of course!).

 

[draceena]

Also is it possible to remove the 100 gig system restore volume that was created?

Once created, trying to remove this will definately cause problems. There is a work around ( http://www.shivaranjan.com/2009/05/...ystem-reserved-partition-during-installation/ ) and it does work (I use it myself as I hate that extra drive being created that I never use)

 

[clifford_cooley]

Thanks draceena

I never actually thought about extending the 100MB partition after it was created as a way of removing it. I can see using this method myself someday.

 

[Nibiru2012]

Also is it possible to remove the 100 gig system restore volume that was created?

First of all it's not 100 GB in size, it's 100 MB. I just leave it be, it's not causing any issues and apparently Windows installs it for a reason.

I mean after all, what's 100 MB on a 500 GB hard drive?

 

[TorrentG]

A good thing you can do is to actually clone the 100 MB partition to other hard drives if you have them.

Then, you can direct bios to boot from any drive with the cloned partition (if partition is set active.)

It would even boot from a USB stick if you have the partition on there...basically anywhere the motherboard is capable of booting from.

Burn it to cd and boot from that.

I dunno, just a cool thing to mention I thought. Like if your original became corrupted for any weird/rare reason, simply tell bios to boot from somewhere else.

Or forget what I just said and run repair startup instead lol.