Re: Changing the partition on my hard drive
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:23:39 -0700
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:36:01 -0700, J150
<J150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The 60GB hard drive on my XP Home Edition PC came set up with C: 13.9GB, D:
36.8GB as shown in My Computer as Total Size. I am running out of space on
the C: partition and would like to increase it by decreasing the space on the
D: partition. Does anybody know if this can be done, and if so, how? Thank
you for any helpful information.
Unfortunately, no version of Windows before Vista provides any way of
changing the existing partition structure of the drive
nondestructively. The only way to do what you want is with third-party
software. Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but there
are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next
Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you
should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used
it myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such program), but
it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.
Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things
*can* go wrong.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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