repartition a hard drive

[Ed Fenwick]

Aloha guys,

I have XP installed on an 80 G hard drive. When I installed it I gave XP 25gigs to run on. And put other stuff on the rest of the drive. Now Windows is getting too fat and wants more than the 25G. Is there a way to change the partitioning without loosing the operating system. I don't mind loosing the other stuff, it is backed up and can go on another drive. I may even buy an external drive, I just don't want to reinstall the operating system. Partition magic would not install 'cause it said I don't have authorization.

Tks and God bless Ed

 

[George C]

Ed,

Does your user account have administrative rights? That is the only reason I have seen Partition Magic not install. Another great program is EASEUS Partition Master. Just to be safe back up your important data before running either program.



George

 

[Ed Fenwick]

Aloha George,

I am the only user listed and am listed as the administrator. I don't know why it won't work either. The problem is that I can't back up windows. I used Ghost last time and id didn't copy all files and I had to reinstall windows, find all the downloaded programs, The windows upgrades take forever and the anti virus won't work without upgrade 2. I'll try EASEUS thanks.

God bless Ed

 

[TomT]

Is this a notebook HD or desktop? Might be a good time to upgrade to a higher capacity HD. Desktop drives are cheap as hell these days. Heck you can buy a 1 TB drive for $59.

 

[Ed Fenwick]

Yea Tom, I have another Hard Drive ready to go in. My problem however is C drive has only 4 G space left and often it will give a message "running low on disk space". I have to change the partition to add more space on "C" drive. It is a desktop btw.

Ed

 

[Jacob Dryer]

Why not copy the smaller partition over to the new drive then instead of trying to resize the current one?

 

[Ed Fenwick]

JD The small drive has windows XP and won't copy

 

[Jacob Dryer]

With a bootable partition utility you can copy the windows partition over to another drive and all will be happy. It's been awhile since I've had to do it so I don't recall the name of the tool that allows it. Most boxed hard drives come with a utility disk that is bootable and should offer that option though.

 

[Daniel Butler]

If I ever have to repartition a hard drive with XP I usually use the XP disc and delete the partition and split my partitions. I back up everything I need before I do any of this as I work on computers for people and know their pain of losing something. XP is a pain as compared to Vista or Win7. Vista and up, you can change partitions with windows running. But your likely options are what I just said or what TomT said. In all honesty, I would run with TomT's idea as it is easier and it gives you more play room. :haveabeer:



Dan