Re: Partitions Revisited

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Robert wrote:

My hard drive is partitioned into C: and D: partitions. When I
purchased it (Sony Vaio desktop) The start-up and all the
preinstalled programs were and still are on the "C:" partition with
less than 15 GBs of memory. I have access to the "D:" partition and
have a lot of stuff backed up but have used less that 20 GBs of the
memory. The "C:" partition is about maxed out. Can someone tell me
how to reverse the paritions or move some of the memory from the "D:"
partition to the "C:" partition?


First, a word on the terminology: it's disk space you are talking about, not
memory. The word "memory" is used for RAM (the stuff you probably have 256
or 512MB of) not disk space.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "reverse the paritions," but there's no
way to do anything like that.

What you apparently want to do is make the C: partition larger and the D:
partition smaller. 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
Please reply to the newsgroup


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