Is there a way to change my partitions, perhaps add a new one, or -- what I'm most interested in -- increase the size of one relative to another without going through a repartition and re-installation of Windows and everything? I have C: and D: on my hard drive in my laptop. My C: drive is larger than my D: drive: C: is like 30 gigs, D is like 20. I want to have a significantly shrunk C: drive, like 15 gigs or less, and convert all that space into the D partition. Or, as a second alternative (less favored but still better than nothing), make a third partition out of that C: space. Can I accomplish that while leaving everything intact? That is, no reformatting, no re-installation? (My OS is WinXP Home installed on the C: drive)
yes, with Acrons DD 10 or with the FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) solution like Gparted LiveCD & just boot the LiveCD [ot]BTW: never use partition magic unless you like curses[/ot]
lucky you, PM was ok until after Symantec bought Powerquest (2003) & decided to rewrite PM because they thought they know best look here BTW: look at the title of this thread
well, it's being a while since i had to use PM, but i'm much much happier with Gparted, if i was still stuck with Win i'd use Acronis DD BTW: i dislike Symantec almost as much as Microsoft Edit: i remember the fiasco that was Win9x, & used XP SP2 for a while & i promised myself i'd only use XP as a networking disabled VM or with networking behind a Linux firewall / router
I looked at the link Donkey provided: the Acronis DD software. It's 50 bucks. I looked at Partition Magic and it's even more: 65. Actually, I'm looking at newegg now, and the acronis is much cheaper there, $35 or 39 if you get combined disk director and true image home v11. Partition magic is still way up there at $63. So, looks like I'll definitely pick the Acronis one... but even at 35, it's kind of a lot. I only need to use it once! 35 bucks for one use? ugh =\ Hmmm .... well, we did have international talk like a pirate day just on Friday ... perhaps, in the spirit of pirates............... *wink wink nudge nudge*
Which one do you want the most ? Heck, just send me an email... Never mind, i sent you a couple emails..
