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Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation, resize and booting

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I have noticed some strange behavior with the ADD11 and re-sizing partitions.

With my laptop I tried to change size of the C:-partition, the windows-version informed me that it needs to reboot, but at the reboot it did not do anything and my partition was the same as before. I got good help from Acronis, but the only solution was to use the boot-image version. I think that is quite good idea anyway to change size of C:!

With my desktop I moved one backup partition. It was not in active use, so I think the Windows-version of ADD11 can move it just fine. It did not warn me about rebooting, but it did a reboot. This time it did everything as expected except that sudden reboot.

After I got some space I increased the C:-drive with the Windows-version and with the desktop computer it worked "just normal" with reboot warnings and correct reboot. It just took quite long time. My C:-drive is quite big as I have many programs and some of them quite big.

I must say I think the home version is little better, the problem is that it is little difficult to use with ABR11.

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Kimmo.

When changing the partition that contains the OS it is always best to do that from the CD version, so that Windows doesn't perform any writes to the disk or hold memory which can effect the Linux based version when the system reboots. When starting from within Windows it reboots into Linux which is the same environment the CD version run in.

Hello Colin,

Thank you very much for your comment. I think you are very correct that the CD/USB boot is very wise when changing the C:-partition. Sometimes I like to "test the limits" of the software and hardware as it is also my job to know about these things.

I wanted to write this comment also to wonder why the move of the backup partition booted my computer and it did it without any warning. Perhaps I must study the logs. There could be a program that is one reason for this.