Thread: Windows partition

Originally Posted by Fableflame

This seems like my best option.

If you'd like to reinstall windows anyway, then I agree. However, my second suggestion should work just fine.

You can shrink the E partition to 50 gigabytes or thereabout and extend the C partition to use up the now unallocated ~150 gb, then move the files from the E partition to the C partition, then delete the E partition and extend the C partition to cover the remainder of the drive.
Just keep in mind that shrinking the E partition to 50 gb will take hours, I usually do that kind of thing over night.

If you don't have a partitioning programme, I can recomend using Gparted. It can be run from a live CD (If you've got an ubuntu live CD lieing around, that'd work fine).

Originally Posted by khh

If you'd like to reinstall windows anyway, then I agree. However, my second suggestion should work just fine.

You can shrink the E partition to 50 gigabytes or thereabout and extend the C partition to use up the now unallocated ~150 gb, then move the files from the E partition to the C partition, then delete the E partition and extend the C partition to cover the remainder of the drive.
Just keep in mind that shrinking the E partition to 50 gb will take hours, I usually do that kind of thing over night.

If you don't have a partitioning programme, I can recomend using Gparted. It can be run from a live CD (If you've got an ubuntu live CD lieing around, that'd work fine).

Sounds annoying, but I guess I'll do that.

Originally Posted by Fableflame

Sounds annoying, but I guess I'll do that.

Yeah, it'd be much easier to simply dump the files to some external drive. But baring that, it's the best option I can think of.

The closest thing I have to an external hard drive is a 2 gigabyte micro sd card.

Basically do what khh said. It's a bit annoying, but it does allow you to save stuff and not lose your windows installation.