Unable to resize partition
I was resizing a partition for one of my users (taking space from D to add to C) and in the middle of the operation the laptop battery went dead. When it powered back up, it saw the used/available space at the same size, but upon attempting to resize the partition again, I got the below message:
Acronis Disk Director Suite was not able to increase the free space on selected partition. the current size oft the selected partition is the maximum possible.
There's no way it's at max size, as it is sitting at 20 GB. :-)
I ran a chkdsk /f, and there do not appear to be any errors on the drive.
Any help would be most appreciated!
Hello every body,
I'm not certain that i'm in the right place, but if i'm not somebody will put me right! My problem is much the same as Duncans, i want to increase the size of my recovery and back-up partition, at the expense of my "D" partition, and up to now i have failed miserably. A.D.D. goes thru all the stages, in both manual, and automatic mode, and on "Commit" starts the process, reboots, and leaves everything exactly as it was. I'm very frustrated after a week-end of wasted time, and effort!
My machine is running XP SP3, with Avira, the HDD is 300GB and is split into "C" (OS/Apps/Settings) at 30GB, "D" (My Docs,Data etc.) 220GB, and "G" (Back up and Restore) at 30GB. Free space on "D" is about 160GB.
I have checked the partition for errors and all seem OK, i've used both manual and auto settings, turned off Avira, uninstalled, and re-installed A.D.D., nothing seems to work, HELP!!!
Donald:
The reason this happens is that when DD reboots to complete an operation it boots into a Linux-based recovery environment which may not have the right device drivers for your hardware. If that's the case the operation fails and you are returned to Windows with no changes made. There is no communication from the Linux recovery environment back to Windows, so you're left in the dark wondering what happened. It's always better to do any operation that will require a reboot from the recovery CD. You will then be able to see what's going on, and will see error messages, if any.
Try the operation from the boot CD. If you haven't done so yet, use the "Bootable Media Builder" option on the Tools menu to create a boot CD. Include both the "full" (Linux-based) and "safe" (DOS-based) mode versions of DD on the boot CD. Boot your PC from the CD and try again. First try "full" mode. Based on your symptom it will probably fail to see your hard disk. If so, try "safe" mode.
Assuming this works and you'd like to be able to use the "full" mode recovery environment you can download an updated version of the rescue CD in ISO image format. The version of the recovery environment included with DD is about 2 years old, so its driver database is getting dated. Go to your account on the Acronis web site and look under "Registered Products" to find Disk Director, and download the ISO file.
Hope this helps...
Hi Kolo,
Right on the button, I downloaded the ISO file, burnt it, and in less time than it's taken me to type this, (excluding the 45mins spent searching for a PS2 key board, just to be on the safe side!) I resized the recovery partition. Thanks for your advice. But it does beg the question, what's the point of having the native "Windows" UI ?
But that's just carping, once again many thanks for your help.
Don.
Don:
The native Windows UI can be used for everything except making changes to the system partition. Any operation that will affect the system partition cannot be done while Windows is running, so DD will shut down Windows and reboot into its Linux recovery environment. It's always better to just do these kinds of operations directly in the recovery environment so that you can see what's going on.