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Partitioning problem.
« on: February 17, 2013, 11:17:20 am »
I want to shrink a volume on my HDD so I can create another partition. It took very long so I though it wasn't doing anything and shut it down. Apparently I should not have done that because now it says "Logical Disk Manager: Acces denied" everytime after a while when I attempt to shrink. Is there any way to fix this that doesn't involve reformatting? I can't afford to lose the data on this disk.
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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2013, 11:39:36 am »
Ohhh yeah... you really shouldn't have shut it down mid-process.  How long was it taking?
What OS are you using, or is on the partition you're trying to shrink? 

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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2013, 11:49:32 am »
Assuming Windows: use the command line tool diskpart

Assuming Ubuntu: Launch disk manager from the command line with sudo
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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2013, 11:54:34 am »
Oh forgot to mention OS stuff.I'm using Windows Vista 32-bit.
Quote from: Fireicee1 on February 17, 2013, 11:39:36 am
Ohhh yeah... you really shouldn't have shut it down mid-process.  How long was it taking?
What OS are you using, or is on the partition you're trying to shrink? 
It was going for around 6 hours already. So I assumed it was hanging/not doing anything anymore.
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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2013, 12:25:32 pm »
use diskpart (must be run from an elevated (run as admin) command prompt)
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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2013, 08:42:11 pm »
Quote from: pimathbrainiac
Assuming Ubuntu: Launch disk manager from the command line with sudo
How do you launch disk manager? :P
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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2013, 08:47:12 pm »
IDK what the command line name is...
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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2013, 02:28:49 am »
gparted is the one Ubuntu uses. And you really shouldn't have done that. It takes a long time to do because data needs to be moved around in order to allow splitting the partition evenly into Used space and Unused space, so a new partition can actually be made without fragmenting the drive.
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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2013, 09:54:17 am »
defragment first, then
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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2013, 01:09:43 pm »
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Re: Partitioning problem.
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2013, 01:52:54 pm »
Defragmenting isn't enough by itself. The whole files can still be in the part of the drive you want to split. The process just takes a long time.
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