Question on resizing service partition (Pic)

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Bert09 · #1 Post by **Bert09** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:40 pm

I just ordered a 7K200 hard drive to replace my current 160GB drive. When I installed the 160GB drive to replace the original 80GB drive, the service partition was automatically increased from 4.64GB to 9.28GB. My question is whether I will run into any issues if I reduced the service partition size to 5 or 6GB when I upgrade to the 200GB drive. Thanks for your help.

#2 Post by **ryengineer** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:52 pm

In short terms no nevertheless most likely in long terms.

#3 Post by **carbon_unit** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:59 pm

Just don't go any smaller than the original size or you may get "Drive x is running out of space" errors.

Bert09 · #4 Post by **Bert09** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:35 am

I had no problems reducing the service partition from 9GB to the original 5GB size. The 7K200 is certainly a very quiet drive, I didn't notice a big improvement in speed but I haven't yet run any disk intensive apps. Thanks for your responses.

MOD EDIT: Picture warning added.

tadler · #5 Post by **tadler** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:02 am

what software did you use to do that?
thanks

#6 Post by **carbon_unit** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:45 am

It looks like Acronis True Image to me.

Bert09 · #7 Post by **Bert09** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:48 am

I used the Apricorn EZ Upgrade program to clone the existing drives. The whole process took less than half an hour.

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