I just successfully used a Gparted Live CD to resize my C: drive that I made too small over three years ago when I installed Windows XP. I used to make the partition small (5.5 GB) for speed, XP installed in just over 3 GB at that time, but what with Service Pack 2 and Office updates I later came up against drive capacity problems. I’ve been avoiding solving this problem for a while. Partition resizing could of course go drastically wrong.
So Phew.
Other than the stability of the drive, what was it that forced me to action? Well its a convoluted chain of events that ends in Audible audio books. My iPod died so I can’t listen to the books in the car. The only way I have is to burn the books onto CD as the iTunes plugin allows you to do. I haven’t yet found another way of listening to these DRM protected books on my other non compliant mp3 players. The lack of drive space caused the CD burn to fail as there wasn’t enough space to create the CD audio cache.
An interesting result is that if you leave the CD in the drive iTunes will rip it again giving you, hey presto, DRM free mp3 files. So now I have 2 ways of listening in the car!
