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Expanded partition but 26% left??

By nrg · Nov 13, 2007in Hacks/Mods💬 9 posts👁️ 1,271 views
Posted Nov 13, 2007 · 07:04 UTC#1

I have successfully restored the Z2 image to a 80g Toshiba and expanded the MSV partition with around 50gigs. Now when I go check the hardware info, it shows only 26% left...why??

Posted Nov 13, 2007 · 13:02 UTC#2

cus yuo can only get 35 gigs for music

Posted Nov 13, 2007 · 17:06 UTC#3

? I believe I saw some others posted they expanded it to 50 gigs aswell...

 

So does that mean its 50 gigs on that partition but the avic only thinks there is 35? Or does it mean I am screwed and I have to re-do the partition......

Posted Nov 13, 2007 · 22:08 UTC#4
? I believe I saw some others posted they expanded it to 50 gigs aswell...

 

So does that mean its 50 gigs on that partition but the avic only thinks there is 35? Or does it mean I am screwed and I have to re-do the partition......

 

Nope, the Z1/2 just does not see that partition correctly. However, I have not experienced any problem thus far.

Posted Nov 19, 2007 · 02:15 UTC#5

Would you be so kind as to tell the rest of us how you expanded this and that program you used. I have everything done except making the partition bigger.

Posted Nov 19, 2007 · 15:48 UTC#6
Would you be so kind as to tell the rest of us how you expanded this and that program you used. I have everything done except making the partition bigger.

 

I'd like to know as well....I figured thy know something I don't, cause from what I could tell, there is no way to exspand FAT32 partitions that are sandwiched between two other partitions.

 

Instead I backed up the last two partitions, deleted them, then created new ones with the right size....Then I drug everything back over. The only problem I had with that, was that any OS, other than Win98, would only allow 32gigs for a Fat partition....So I made MSV 32gigs, and let USER have the rest....

 

I used diskpart.exe to do everything, cept I used DiskManager to assign drive letters and name the volume....

Posted Nov 21, 2007 · 02:33 UTC#7

I used acronis's disk director....

Posted Nov 21, 2007 · 23:49 UTC#8
Would you be so kind as to tell the rest of us how you expanded this and that program you used. I have everything done except making the partition bigger.

 

I'd like to know as well....I figured thy know something I don't, cause from what I could tell, there is no way to exspand FAT32 partitions that are sandwiched between two other partitions.

 

Instead I backed up the last two partitions, deleted them, then created new ones with the right size....Then I drug everything back over. The only problem I had with that, was that any OS, other than Win98, would only allow 32gigs for a Fat partition....So I made MSV 32gigs, and let USER have the rest....

 

I used diskpart.exe to do everything, cept I used DiskManager to assign drive letters and name the volume....

 

Acronis Disk Director is a fabolous program. It allows you to take from unused space anywhere on the disk and add it to the partition of your choice. All from within Windows (including Vista). Unfortunately the trial version is too limited for this project but Acronis is easily worth the 50 bucks and a must have program for me.

Posted Nov 30, 2007 · 05:33 UTC#9

I use partition magic 12 to change partition sizes. Works very well.