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Hullo all.

Well, here's my problem. I was being stupid and installed Vista to a partition that has only a 12GB capacity. Now I only ever have between 2 and 1GB free at max on the drive and keep all my files on a larger 160 GB partition. I can't do certain things on Vista because of the lack in size of free space such as:

* Burning a DVD movie (It requires 4GB of free space for me :/ )
* Upgrading to Service Pack 1 (Requires 7GB of free space)
* Installing Boot Camp (There just wouldn't be enough free space to make it practical).

So I would like to pretty much take an entire copy of the Vista partition and move it over to another partition that's bigger - say 40 to 60GB in size.

I've been looking all day but can't seem to find any information on the matter, and I don't want to potentially risk anything so I want to be certain that what I do will work.

Also, I don't think I can just copy the files from Vista over to another HD - there's things like the boot sector and "super-hidden" files that wouldn't be copied over.

These are some of the links I've tried:

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1371
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-setup-install/919858.htm
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=818026&SiteID=17
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-installation-setup/93763-moving-my-operating-system-new-partition.html
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-installation-setup/90603-moving-xp-partition-vista-hdd.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/archive/index.php/t-115832.html

I have Vista Home Premium btw, and can't find my installation DVD. :/ If I could I'd just reinstall it.

If I happened to miss some information that may have helped me in the links above or on google please POLITELY point it out.

Side Note: I have XP installed on another HD.

Cheers,

-naota

As far as my knowledge in this area extends, you can't. Plain and simple. But, I may be wrong.

If there's a way to make an image of my Vista partition and then write that image to another partition that should work, shouldn't it?

Thanks all.

@Grandma
That's hilarious, lol

Edit
Ah, I think I found something that might do it. http://selfimage.excelcia.org/

Now I feel stupid for making this post -- if it works. lol.



Cheers,

-naota

Well, there is the issue of the MBR. But, if you know how to restore that, you'll be fine. Otherwise, please say something to get an explanation.

Oh, yes...

Well the MBR I can change with that BCD app can't I?

If I happen to mess up the MBR I'm sure I'll be able to fix it since I'm only working with partitions and not the whole HD + I can choose which partition is active I'm sure.

EDIT
Just to be clear I'm not going to delete my old Vista partition until I know that the new Vista partition works fine and independent of the old partition.

EDIT 2
Now I've been waiting for about an hour or so while my larger drive defragments. There's 80 GB free on the drive but it will only let me resize it to about 4 GB smaller :/

Cheers,

-naota