User manual ACRONIS PARTITIONEXPERT 2003

[. . . ] User's Guide PartitionExpert 2003 Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © SWsoft, 2000­2002. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] If you move this partition closer to the beginning of a disk OS might work much faster with it. · · Change partition configuration. 44 Chapter 4 : Manual Partition Operations If you need to move a partition to unallocated disk space: 1. Data (K:) partition of hard disk 2 is selected for moving on the figure below. Selecting a partition to move 2. Execute operation of partition moving by selecting Disk similar item in the Operations sidebar list or by clicking selected partition to another free space on the toolbar. Move or a Move the Copyright © SWsoft, 2000­2002 45 3. Acronis PartitionExpert will automatically compare moved partition size and available free space, indicating it in the Move Partition window. Only hard disk 2 unallocated space is available for partition moving on the figure below. Unallocated space available for partition moving Note that the unallocated space is smaller than moved partition size, but its data area is smaller than unallocated space. Therefore moving is possible. If there is not enough free space to copy a partition on a hard disk, no unallocated spaces will be available for selection. 4. On the next wizard page select the type of moved partition (Logical -- Primary), size, and location. Changing partition type is not as necessary here as partition copying (see 4. 1. 2 «Copying a partition to unallocated disk space»). Nevertheless, Acronis PartitionExpert gives you this added flexibility. Entering moved partition parameters 46 Chapter 4 : Manual Partition Operations The size and location of partition copy can be provided with a mouse click or by entering data into the Unallocated space before, Partition size (and Unallocated space after) fields. By clicking OK in the Move partition window, you add a pending operation to partition moving (your actions may only undo or modify already existing operation; see 2. 4. 5 «Modifying pending operations»). The new partition structure will be graphically represented in Acronis PartitionExpert main window. Moving a partition to unallocated disk space in Windows 95/98/Me can change the order of letters assigned to other partitions. The detailed discussion of partition letter assignment rules for various operating systems are described in 3. 1 «Creating A New Partition». Take special care when moving an operating system partition and its boot code location. For example, Windows NT 4. 0 and earlier versions limit boot code location to 2016 MB. 4. 1. 4 Resizing and/or moving a partition You may find that there is not enough free space on a certain partition. Reasons of moving a partition were discussed above (see 4. 1. 3 «Moving a partition to unallocated disk space»). Select hard disk and a partition to be resized, Execute operation of partition resizing by selecting Disk Resize or a Resimilar item in the Operations sidebar list, or by clicking size/move the selected partition on the toolbar, Copyright © SWsoft, 2000­2002 47 3. Resize the partition in the Resize Partition window: (1) (2) Hold mouse button and drag a corresponding partition rectangle side until you get the necessary size in the Partition size field, Specify the partition size in the Partition size field, Resize partition window 4. Relocate a partition on a disk by one of the following methods: (1) (2) Holding mouse button and dragging corresponding partition rectangle left side to resize free space before the partition; Having pointed to the rectangle, hold the left mouse button and move a partition as a whole until you get the necessary MB or GB amount in the Unallocated space before field; Specifying the necessary value in the Unallocated space before field. Acronis PartitionExpert automatically considers the limitations of file systems and parameters provided. In particular, it won't let you enlarge FAT16 partition over the maximum 4 GB (2 GB for Windows 95OSR2/98/Me) value. (3) 5. By clicking OK in the Resize Partition window, you create a pending operation for partition resizing and moving (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation; see 2. 4. 5 «Modifying pending operations»). The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis PartitionExpert main window. Acronis PartitionExpert features a wizard for performing more complex partition resizing (see 3. 2 «Increasing Partition»). Simple partition resizing lets you increase partition size only if there is free (unallocated) space before or after a partition. The wizard lets you perform more complex operations such as increasing partition free space at the expense of other partitions. 48 Chapter 4 : Manual Partition Operations Moving a partition to unallocated disk space in Windows 95/98/Me can change the order of letters, assigned to other partitions. The detailed discussion of partition letter assignment rules for various operating systems are described in 3. 1 «Creating A New Partition». Take special care when moving an operating system partition and its boot code location. For example, Windows NT 4. 0 and earlier versions limit boot code location to 2016 MB. 4. 1. 5 Changing partition labels Partition label is an optional attribute. It's a name, assigned to a partition for easier recognition of your partitions. For example, one could be called System -- a partition with an operating system, Program -- an application partition, Data -- a data partition, etc. In Windows partition labels are shown in the Explorer disk and folder tree: WIN98(C:), WINXP(D:), DATA(E:), etc. [. . . ] Since every operating system has its own boot sector, it is able to perform all the necessary actions to load and initialize system and configuration files. 78 Appendix B : Glossary Since a boot manager usually supports multiple operating systems on one computer and even one partition, it has to perform some preparatory actions (create the boot context) before booting an operating system. An independent area on a hard disk where a file system can be located. A partition can be either primary or logical, depending on its position in the partition structure. Besides, some partition managing software and boot managers allow hiding partitions. 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