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Audio Warfare
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 Posted - 2010/04/29 : 09:19:39
Is there an easy way to do this on Vista? Pretty much out of space on my main partition so want to take some from another and put it on this one.
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 11:59:26
allocated as in system files that are running/unmovable? I would guess it would only work in fail-safe mode. There's also the pagefile to consider since its the virtual space file
Not sure if I understand what you mean :P
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 12:05:31
Only know how its done in XP, and under finnish OS. So explaning how its done in Vista would be quite hard, since they renamed everything on the turd Vista.
You can also do it with e.g. Partition Magic, which is more userfriendly.
EDIT: Oh and the partitions have to be on the same physical disc AFAIK. So if you want to move space from another HDD, doubt that would work.
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Audio Warfare
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 13:14:34
Yes it's on the same disk so that's all good. I have 3 partitions one for windows stuff, one for games and one for music stuff. Only got 5GB on the main/windows partition left. :(
Hmm will take a look at partition magic, is it free? Do you think there is much risk of data loss when moving things around like this? I don't know much about hard drives but I guess it would be pretty risk free as you're just assigning empty space to a difference section.
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 13:36:57
you can do it in vista in computer managment! :)
when i get home, i have old skool xp on this work computer i can type a walkthrough
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 13:41:40
Ah thank you Triq, that would be very much appreciated. 
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 13:44:51
1. Go into Computer Management
2. Head into the Disk Management section
3. Take a screenshot for me
Do you by chance have more storage space elsewhere? If conditions are right (I imagine they are) it will involve deleting the games and music partitions.
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 13:53:05
Nice one. Will do when I get in from work.
I would rather not delete the music partition if avoidable though! It has lots of vsts and what not that I've purchased and on some of them the license thing gets buggered up if you move it to a different path. This will cause major hassle!
I have lots of spare room on these other partitions.
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 13:59:54
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Originally posted by Audio Warfare:
Nice one. Will do when I get in from work.
I would rather not delete the music partition if avoidable though! It has lots of vsts and what not that I've purchased and on some of them the license thing gets buggered up if you move it to a different path. This will cause major hassle!
I have lots of spare room on these other partitions.
I imagine there are multiple ways around that, such as using virtual drives.
By the way, just a tip if you don't already know it, with the computer management window selected just press Alt+PrtScn, so you won't have to do any cropping afterwards.
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 15:13:35
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Originally posted by Audio Warfare:
Hmm will take a look at partition magic, is it free? Do you think there is much risk of data loss when moving things around like this? I don't know much about hard drives but I guess it would be pretty risk free as you're just assigning empty space to a difference section.
AFAIK it costs something. Messing with partitions is never risk free. At least Partition Magic lets you keep all the data on the partitions you are resizing.
Last time i did it on XP, i got an error right before it was finished (first time in 10 years of use of the program mind you), and the program couldnt anymore find 2 partitions full of stuff. But was able to assign drive letters for them in windows disc management, so didnt lose anything. Thats the only time i've had problems with it. Just be sure to never ever try to rush things. I could have just made a new partition and lose everything in the process, if i didnt have searched for all workarounds.
Apparently nobody is selling partition magic anymore. Norton bought it, but their saying they dont offer it anymore. So just figure out if theres another way to get it. EDIT: apparently the last version wasnt for Vista, so if you cant dualboot XP, youre screwed cause AFAIK it was the only one that let resize without losing data :(
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 16:06:56
I thought id comment in this topic so people saw that i had in the "new topics since last visit" thing and think i'm clever.....But this reallly is gibberish to me lol
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 16:18:31
Just to elaborate... after you've backed up all of your instruments (while retaining folder structure) and expanded the main partition into the newly-freed space, you would create the virtual drive, mount it under the same drive letter as the music partition was, move the instruments back, and as someone over where you are might say, Bob's your uncle. :p
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 16:20:56
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Originally posted by Rayovac:
Just to elaborate... after you've backed up all of your instruments (while retaining folder structure) and expanded the main partition into the newly-freed space, you would create the virtual drive, mount it under the same drive letter as the music partition was, move the instruments back, and as someone over where you are might say, Bob's your uncle. :p
What he said :)
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 16:30:06
Ok cheers for all the info guys! Shame PM isn't available anymore. :(
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Originally posted by Rayovac:
Just to elaborate... after you've backed up all of your instruments (while retaining folder structure) and expanded the main partition into the newly-freed space, you would create the virtual drive, mount it under the same drive letter as the music partition was, move the instruments back, and as someone over where you are might say, Bob's your uncle. :p
Unfortunately this doesn't work. The file seems to know when it has been moved and stops working. It's how they stop people copying the product I guess!
lol at Fingaz. :D haha.
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 16:52:52
quote:
Originally posted by Audio Warfare:
Ok cheers for all the info guys! Shame PM isn't available anymore. :(
quote:
Originally posted by Rayovac:
Just to elaborate... after you've backed up all of your instruments (while retaining folder structure) and expanded the main partition into the newly-freed space, you would create the virtual drive, mount it under the same drive letter as the music partition was, move the instruments back, and as someone over where you are might say, Bob's your uncle. :p
Unfortunately this doesn't work. The file seems to know when it has been moved and stops working. It's how they stop people copying the product I guess!
lol at Fingaz. :D haha.
PMs are gone?! Well you can always MSN me if you want (chris DOT hale AT gmx DOT com).
Also, you already tried the virtual drive thing? I don't see why it wouldn't work. Try doing exactly this:
1. In the disk management section, right click on the music partition.
2. Select Change Drive Letter and Paths
3. Take note of the current letter. For example's sake I'll say it's E:.
4. Select change. Change it's letter to something like Z:.
5. Create a virtual drive by going to Action > Create VHD (in computer management)
6. Select a location and name for the drive. Set the drive size to something that your know your plugins will fit into, and have room for expansion too such as if you were to install more later on. Select fixed-size as the format. Finish.
7. It'll be created, a driver will install, blah blah. In computer management, right click on the virtual drive (the drive, not the partition) and select initialize.
8. Default settings should be fine. Press OK.
9. Right click on the partition. New Simple Volume. Now assign it the drive letter that the music partition used to have; in this example, I would set it as E:.
10. Format it. It should finish fairly quickly.
11. Now, let's say that your instruments are now located in Z:\Example\Directory\Vstplugins (Z: because you changed the letter). You DON'T only copy the Vstplugins folder, you copy the ENTIRE directory (So you copy Example\Directory\Vstplugins into the new virtual drive).
12. Open up your DAW and see if the instruments work.
If that doesn't work I'm going to gnaw my arm off!
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Posted - 2010/04/29 : 17:03:19
Haha I meant Partition Magic. ;) Sorry that was lazy and unclear.
Nah not home from work yet. I dont want to risk moving it thought as I'm pretty sure it wont work. If I move the file and put it back it stops working (have tried it in the past). Don't know how it works but you can't move the things. Had to go through contacting the supplier and all that rubbish to get a new reg file last time. :(
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