Comments on: How to resize a partition in Windows Vista

By: bayu hartantyo

bayu hartantyo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:30:25 +0000

good,

By: Rance

Rance — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:56:56 +0000

I don’t think the built-in “disk manangement” is safe. Each time I do it, I feel my system crashed, I don’t know it is process or not.

I got easeus partition manager home edition, a freeware, but works perfect in vista. I think that is much useful.

By: maiman

maiman — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:47:52 +0000

thx a lot dude…. sure help me a lot… rather than wasting time dloding diffrent type of partision magic… hahah….

By: Albert (admin)

Albert (admin) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:30:29 +0000

I’m confused, I thought your problem was that you can’t access that drive, but now you say that you are booting from X:?
Did you even create X:?

If you could create a topic in the forums summarizing what happened and what you did so far, that would be great. So it could be more organized =)

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:13:58 +0000

Hi Albert,

thanks for your response.

actullay, my computer doesn’t belong to any company, in other words, i bought the parts saperatly and combine them to come up with my own brand.

I’am going crazy because of this problem ! i cleaned the hard disk and created one volume “C:” and installed a clean version of Vista, but i was surprised when the same problem exists !

Windows Vista Repair (form CD) –> Load Driver –> there is C: and X: as well !!
BUT
DISKPART –> select disk 0 (th only disk i have) –> list volume –> only C: appear !

it is booting form X: ! nothing is connected to the PC except the keyboard and the mouse, which means that the X: is part of the hard disk i guess !

i just want to start Vista normally !

By: Albert (admin)

Albert (admin) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:37:36 +0000

Perhaps the X partition is a recovery partition created by the company you bought your computer from?

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:13:44 +0000

Bananas, thank you for your response.

when i write “list partition” on DISKPART, the X: partition doesn’t appear !! only C: & D: !!

but when i make repair windows from Vista CD, it askes me to load driver (it opens browes window), by clicking on “My Computer” on the left, C:,D: & X:(boot) appear on the right !

how can i delete X: partition ?

thanx .. =)

By: Bananas

Bananas — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:41:08 +0000

@Tom: did you try tools like Easy Cleaner and File scavenger to see if they are detecting anything?

@Ahmad: Can you write files on partition X? Best thing to do would be to back-up D & X on an external hard drive, delete them and use Vista to make new partition. Your system should automatically look at C: If that doesn’t work you will probably have to reinstall Vista.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:00:03 +0000

sorry for writing twice, but i have additional information that might help solving the situation..

now i have 3 partiotin C:(70GB), D:(48GB), X:(30MB)

i don’t know how X: partition came ! the system is trying to boot from X: partition !

how can i change the boot option to C: ( i tried by going to bios menu and change priorites, but the hard disk appears as one partition)

thanx .. =)

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:20:11 +0000

PLZ HELP HELP .. LOL

i have 120GB hard disk, 50GB free space connot be located so i swiched to dynamic and added a new volume then i deleted it and extended the C: from 20GB to 70GB to include the unlocated space i’ve just mentioned .. it works fine for couple of days, but after restarting the PC the message “Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media…” appears !!

i tried to repair the problem using the windows vista CD, but unfortunatly same problem !