Partition Resizing

[Lazarus]

Guys,

I have a 120GB IDE disk drive with 3 paritions present.

Is there an easy way of resizing the partitions?

 

[SheepCow]

Partition Magic or some other software. Windows itself won't do it. It's also a bit of a scary thing to do so make sure you've got everything backed up.

 

[xane]

If you don't have any software, then its easier to buy a new disk !

I spent £60 on Partition Magic a long time back, it was obsolete when XP came out

 

[Lazarus]

dont need a new disk (got 3 in there atm) - just wanted to extend the size of the partition I had.
thanks for the replies

 

[TdC]

can't XP's disk partitioner do it? I forget :/

 

[SheepCow]

I can't no, it can only allocate/destroy.

 

[xane]

dont need a new disk (got 3 in there atm) - just wanted to extend the size of the partition I had.
thanks for the replies

What I meant was, rather than buy software to do it, just buy a new disk, if you were going to spend any money.

Otherwise backup, reformat, re-fdisk, and restore.

 

[Lazarus]

What I meant was, rather than buy software to do it, just buy a new disk, if you were going to spend any money.

Otherwise backup, reformat, re-fdisk, and restore.

*cough* ffs xane - not when im eatin. I almost choked on me food!!!!!!

 

[phlash]

If you want to add more space, XP can do that without re-partitioning the disk, you just mount the extra partitions into suitable directories in one file system using disk manager (I do this at home, everything then appears under C:\). Of course you still have size limits within each partition... but sometimes that's useful to protect the system partition