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Old 25-05-2010, 23:41   #1
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Extending boot partition (Vista)

Right, I'm constantly running out of space on my Vista boot partition (60 Gig), not helped by Vista helping itself to a generous 10 Gig for system restore. After a cleanup, and deleting restore points, I now have about 20 Gig free, but that will likely be reduced to about 5 in a few months time.

I have 35 Gig spare (out of 75) on my data partition, so I figured I'd try and allocate 20 Gig of that to the boot partition. I can shrink the data partition in Vista's Disk management, but I can't extend the boot partition by the freed up/unallocated space.

My understanding is that if I were to delete the data partition (after having copied all that's on it over to a usb drive, obviously), I would be able to extend the boot partition with whatever I've freed up from the data partition. Is this correct, or am I setting myself up for trouble and should use some alternate partition manager, (or not muck about at all)

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