Best program to resize partition

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I went to a new client today and windows 7 was installed on the recovery partition
With recovery image deleted, its only 10 gigs so needless to say it’s full
They asked me to delete some files to free up space, as nothing was working with 100% disk full
On the C partition is an old non-working Vista install
In the past I have used partition magic many times to do this (was always risky), I don’t know if this will work with new sata drives as PM is pretty old..
The best option I suggested was to re-install win 7 on the C drive, but they have a few specialized optometry programs installed, they lost the install disks
 
Acronis Disk Director workstation I think, I'll check the exact product later. I had to resize two partitions a couple of weeks ago, worked fine.
 
I went to a new client today and windows 7 was installed on the recovery partition
With recovery image deleted, its only 10 gigs so needless to say it’s full
They asked me to delete some files to free up space, as nothing was working with 100% disk full
On the C partition is an old non-working Vista install
In the past I have used partition magic many times to do this (was always risky), I don’t know if this will work with new sata drives as PM is pretty old..
The best option I suggested was to re-install win 7 on the C drive, but they have a few specialized optometry programs installed, they lost the install disks

I think Windows 7 will do this anyway but PM would work as would Disk Director or Easeus. The interface to the drive makes no difference here. No need to reinstall Windows.
 
I would be surprised if Windows 7 disk manager
would do it without deleting first

You only need to delete the partition that you don't need. The OP says it's an old non-working vista install so assuming that isn't needed then Win 7 will do it.
 
I have used EaseUS on servers and it's great. I think they also have a home edition.
 
I normally use Gparted for this & it's included with Ubuntu so you don't even need to download it if you have a bootable Ubuntu disk.
 
Windows 7 already does that without any 3rd party apps, why would you want to go around your arsehole to get to your elbow?

That's like having hens at home and going to the grocery store for eggs. (yes, I have hens at home.)
 
Windows 7 already does that without any 3rd party apps, why would you want to go around your arsehole to get to your elbow?

That's like having hens at home and going to the grocery store for eggs. (yes, I have hens at home.)

Think the space has to be behind it doesnt it? There is something picky about windows disk management...I forget havent used it in so long.
 
I am a big fan of Acronis, I like to stay away from M$ for utilities and Norton since they have caused me to die a thousand deaths over a period of 20 years, you can’t unscramble an egg.
They do have data stored on the C drive dues to limited D
Not that I couldn’t save it before deleting.
I tried disk director and it’s easy, I do all on site work so things have to be easy
Not like the luxury of having a shop and ponder things over a cup of coffee
I have eye balls on me all the time.
 
What I would do is clone the drive over to a larger drive with Acronis, make sure that drives works ok in his system, then you can play around with moving space around on the original drive.
If when using Acronis, you may be able to use manual clone and designate the extra space to the 'D' partition.:)
 
Here is where I have had problems in the past.
Hard drive has two partitions and the first partition is larger than the second and I want to grow the second partition by taking space from the first. I have been able to remove the space from the first partition, but for some reason when you go to 'grow' space to the second partition, it will not allow me to merge the space in front of the second partition, but it will allow me to use space that is behind the partition... unfortunately, there is no space there.
 
I have been using BootIt® Bare Metal - Partition Manager
I bought the whole bundle - and love it! I use image for Linux almost daily! Great software and excellent support too.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm
Thanks...
I totally agree. I've been using their tools for many years for imaging, partition management, multi-booting and disk cloning. Completely reliable.
 
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