How to resize partition - Lenovo Service Part

[Tash]

I have a Lenovo X61s. Came with 80gb drive. Upgrading to 250gb drive. Used Acronis TI. Drive has Service Partition (normally 4.9gb) and C:. When cloning, I have 15gb Service Part on the new drive because it expanded the partitions proportionally. How can I regain the 10gb from the Service partition to the C: ? If I use Partition Magic, the drive no longer boots.

Thanks.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Make sure the boot flag is on the correct partition. I recently did that mistake, it's one of those small things that's easy to overlook.

 

[Tash]

How do I set the boot flag?

Are you sure that's the solution? it didn't boot from either partition after Partition Magic.

What if I saved the MBR before the resizing and then restored it afterwords?

Thanks.

 

[Dahak]

Lenovo has a utility to fix there master boot record. I have used it to correct and issue with the xp version. just download the one that you need and it should work

Available here .. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-54483

 

[luckjack]

I have a Lenovo X61s. Came with 80gb drive. Upgrading to 250gb drive. Used Acronis TI. Drive has Service Partition (normally 4.9gb) and C:. When cloning, I have 15gb Service Part on the new drive because it expanded the partitions proportionally. How can I regain the 10gb from the Service partition to the C: ? If I use Partition Magic, the drive no longer boots.

Thanks.

Why not try "Disk Copy" funciton of EASEUS Partition Master? The home edition is free for windows home users. After you complete the disk copy from 80GB HDD to 250GB HDD, the 250GB HDD is the same as 80GB HDD, the Service partition is still 4.9GB on the 250GB HDD. After you boot the computer from 250GB HDD, you can use EASEUS Partition Master to add unallocated space to other partition on 250GB HDD.
http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/disk-copy.htm

 

[chusteczka]

Since you are using Acronis, run the restore procedure twice. Let the first run of the restore procedure copy the MBR and the first 4.9GB service partition. Then run Acronis restore again to copy the second partition to the rest of the new drive.

EDIT: That is a nice contributing first post by LuckJack above. It is good to have you on the forum.

 

[Blazer]

what OS ?

 

[JackMDS]

On the other hand the extra 10GB taken form a 250GB drive would not shorten you life either.

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EDIT: That is a nice contributing first post by LuckJack above. It is good to have you on the forum.

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