Here is a technical question!

[lizbee]

I need to upgrade from Windows 7 RC to Windows 7 Ultimate. But first, I need to back up all my data. Which is about 200gb of ... stuff.

The House o'Squid has a 1 terabyte hard drive, but piecesofalice and suburbannoir are Mac users, so the drive is partitioned. And it looks like the Windows partition is only 29gb. Is it possible to increase that without reformatting the drive and losing the others' data? And if so, how the heck do I do it?

"Get a Mac" or "Switch to Linux" are not the correct answers, and anyone suggesting that will be defriended for obnoxiousness.

Comments

[danni]

Repartitioning disks and growing partitions is hypothetically possible in some conditions (e.g. there is spare space on the disk, your partition is the last one), but in general unless you've set up to do it: the answer is no.

Unfortunately I don't have spare storage I could lend you.

You could plug the disk into a Mac, share it via Windows file sharing, connect your computers via an ethernet cable (to make it fast) and copy that way. Requires a complicit second squid.

[lizbee]

That's okay, I found a program that persuades Windows to access the Mac partition. Only a trial version, but hey, I only need it for the day.

Unfortunately I don't have spare storage I could lend you.

That's okay, the thought is very kind.

[semtex]

Can smb file sharing be enabled on the Mac-formatted partitions? Is the TB drive attached to the Macs on your LAN or a router or to your Windows machine?