I feel so…. so…. fulfilled.

You may, or more likely, may not have noticed the post below about replacing the HDD in Beastbits. One of the problems that stood out for me after doing that, was resizing the NTFS partition. Cleverly, when I set the machine up almost exactly a year ago, I’d thought nothing of creating a tiny system partition (5Gb on a 60Gb drive). As my system got used, and more (sigh) Win XP updates got thrown at me, that 5Gb soon became a pair of 36″ plastic trousers on my 46″ gut of MIGHT. There simply wasn’t enough room.

Now, in the last post, I mentioned backing up the old 60Gb HDD, seeing as it sounded like it was about to be sick. The Nero DVD I’d created actually included a basic partition manager. That way, I was able to remove the old partitons on the 120Gb drive that replaced it, but not actually resize it. So, once again, I’d be stuck with a 5Gb partition on a 120Gb drive. There had to be SOME way of resizing the partition in Windows.

Unsurprisingly, there wasn’t. Gah.

Yet, I wasn’t defeated. I fired up google. There had to be something. And there was. And it came, also unsurprisingly in the form of Linux.

You see, Linux is just the fountain of everything good in the whole history of things better than…. stuff. Seriously. It’s not for your Aunt Mabel, but if you know what you’re doing, it’s better than teh secx.

I digress… I downloaded an ISO from www.sysreccd.org and was able to use QtParted to resize the NTFS partition from 5Gb to 30Gb. Woohoo!

So, I now have a reasonably sensible system drive to work with! Now, let’s toss a coin to see if I can be bothered to install SP2…. :)