If it were a process that could be easily stopped, I suppose Microsoft would have added a cancel button.Įxpanding it back shouldn't take as long, if I remember correctly, since it will just tack on the extra free space to the partition and not have to move anything around.Īs for playing games, I suppose there's not really anything wrong with it as long as you have enough free space buffer after resizing it that the games won't eat up while playing them (not sure about what WoW does when you play it.) I'd expect a bit of a performance loss if it needs to access the hard drive a lot. I'm not sure of the details behind the process-it may move data around with less chance of loss and then make the destructive changes to the partition table once it's done, but it's really not a good idea to do a reset. You might have anywhere from 15-20 minutes to 1-2 hours or more left.Ī hard reset is not a good idea at this point. Sometimes it's a bit faster than an hour and a half, but it's completely normal for it to take a couple of hours, depending on the size of the partition being reduced and space being freed. Shrinking the volume requires moving a lot of data around since some data might be located at the end of the partition where the free space is going to be created. Resizing may take *hours*! If you interrupt it, you most likely will corrupt your data.
I really appreciate any response I can get. Also would it be safe to play WoW, while it is doing this? I really didn't expect it to take this long. Everytime I Boot and/or Reboot whether in Normal mode or SAFE Mode, I keep getting a. How long more is it going to take, I am kinda afraid to do a hard reset, so I am going to try and let it finish, but when it is done, expanding it back into the volume won't take this long will it?. Running Win 7 Starter with all of the latest updates on an Acer Aspire. Before you take a closer look at this tool and the information it provides, its.
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It has the "thinking" circle, when I hover over the disk manager, and I can carry out my normal activities, but I really would like it to finish, because I have thought against it, so I am going to just wait until Windows 7 comes out in October. Volume Shadow Copy Administrative Command-line Tool (VSSAdmin) can be used to create and delete volume shadow copies/associations, list shadow copy providers and writers, and resize a volume shadow storage association. I made about a 37gig partition I believe by shrinking the volume, and it has now been about an hour and a half, and its still not done. I have a 250gig HD, and it had 107 gigs free.
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Okay so earlier I decided to shrink my Vista volume to install Windows 7.