[hudsonma]

When reflashing the OS to the newest image, is it possible to repartition the flash harddrive to make more room on the C: drive as opposed to the D: drive?

[Bill Coral]

Yes, you can do it. I have used SYMANTECT GHOST and have a 4GB partition split into 2GB and 2GB. I had to do this on some of my units because I needed some more C: space for applications and codecs.

Do you know how to do it?

Bill

[hudsonma]

I've done it before from the command prompt when booted from a flash drive or CD.  Does the tool Samsung provides for bootable flash drives include the partitioning tool?  I don't have Symantec Ghost or any other software to do it with.  Do you know of any free software to partition with?

[Bill Coral]

I have not done it, so I don't know. I think there is a resizing option. If you do anything I would suggest that you take a backup of your screen as an image so that you can always go back to your original setup.

Bill

[Bun707]

I have done this many times to simply delete the D: drive and stretch out the C: drive to take over the full 4GB.  In those cases I was installing RiseVision instead of MagicInfo (a better product if I say so but that's what we sell ).

Anyways... try using GParted live CD.  You boot off of the CD if you have an external USB DVD Drive and then perform all the resizing and deleting/changing partition stuff you want.  They also have PXE and USB versions of the GParted program, but I haven't tried those yet.  It's been bulletproof for me thus far.

You can find GParted here:   http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

[RichardW]

I'm also new to using Samsung LFD and XPe with EWF. I have one 520DXN which has a 4GB drive in it. Have used the Samsung tools to backup the image but would very much like to run this image from a USB 64GB flash drive. I found that I need to use Ghost in raw copy mode to copy the internal drive correctly but in that mode I can not resize the c or d drives. Bill you mentioned that you were able to use Ghost and resize the c drive. Can you please pass along how you were able to do that? Does EWF need to be disabled first?

Thanks,

Ricahrd

[RichardW]

Correction, I have ghosted, using Ghost 8.2, the built-in drive several times using the all, boot, disk & raw switches and none will boot up on the Samsung nor any other computer. I have ghosted with EWF disabled as well. Again my need is to create a usable ghost backup and second use that backup on a usb flash drive and resize the c partition to 2GB. I would also like to use, if possible, a FAT32 format for the d partition so that it be expanded to over 2GB.

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Hi All,

same need, not enough space for codecs and Office viewers, so I wanted to remove D: partition and extend C:

Bad idea, D: has pagefile on it, if you try removing a nice blue screen pops on your brand new monitor.

I'll try to resize 2GB-2GB, maybe XP will accept that.

Though, after blue screen of death, I had to re-image with SFIM and .sfi file provided by Samsung support: after that, I lost the Program sub-menu (from systray) to select None, Player or Scheduler; I have only a Run command to start scheduler.
I miss also the corresponding frame in Setup/Program tab.

Andrea

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update:

resizing means using a partition manager that asks for exclusive access to partitions, thus restarting system several times to apply changes.

Of course anything not managed by EWF will be lost on next startup.... :-(

Andrea

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update:

resizing means using a partition manager that asks for exclusive access to partitions, thus restarting system several times to apply changes.

Of course anything not managed by EWF will be lost on next startup.... :-(

Andrea

turnkey was to disable EWF (select "Disable and restart" from systray menu);
resized partitions using EASEUS Partition Manager (free downloadable Home Edition from here:
http://www.clickstart.it/Software/Software-Applicativi/EASEUS-Partition-Master-5.8.1-Home-Edition.html)

remember to re-enable EWF to activate write overlay on top of your partition.

Andrea