Guest J150 Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 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. -- J150 -- J150
Guest Mark Dormer Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: Changing the partition on my hard drive I would use and have done this many times using BootItNG. Do it in maintenance mode and you don't have to install the boot manager. Free, though if you like it, register it, as it is well worth it in my opinion. http://www.bootitng.com Instructions here http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/bootitng.pdf and http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/ Regards Mark Dormer "J150" <J150@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:CB65F552-5A66-4EBE-8E26-5543EFBB2A6D@microsoft.com... > 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. > -- > J150 > -- > J150
Guest sgopus Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: Changing the partition on my hard drive You should also mention that XP doesn't like the operating system partition to change in size once the operating system has been installed, you will need to run a repair install after you have re-sized the partition, in fact don't even boot to windows, just boot to the xp cd and run the repair. "Mark Dormer" wrote: > I would use and have done this many times using BootItNG. > Do it in maintenance mode and you don't have to install the boot manager. > Free, though if you like it, register it, as it is well worth it in my > opinion. > > http://www.bootitng.com > > Instructions here http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/bootitng.pdf > and http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/ > > > Regards > Mark Dormer > > > "J150" <J150@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:CB65F552-5A66-4EBE-8E26-5543EFBB2A6D@microsoft.com... > > 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. > > -- > > J150 > > -- > > J150 > > >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: Changing the partition on my hard drive On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:36:01 -0700, J150 <J150@discussions.microsoft.com> 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 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest J150 Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 RE: Changing the partition on my hard drive Thank you all for your replies. I was hoping there was a built-in XP mechanism for this, but as Ken Blake wrote, there is not, and I will have to be careful if I try any third-party solutions. -- J150 "J150" 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. > -- > J150 > -- > J150
Guest dobey Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: Changing the partition on my hard drive He won't need to run a repair install. BootitNG works from bootable media. I've restore system partitions to different size partitions, and resized them without problem. The OP should get a backup HDD, they are not that expensive, and he should make a backup before he attempts the resize in any case. Of course chances are if he did get another HDD, he wouldn't need to resize :-) "sgopus" <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E862BE27-DBAB-4EBD-AEE3-7FBC2AC25766@microsoft.com... > You should also mention that XP doesn't like the operating system > partition > to change in size once the operating system has been installed, you will > need > to run a repair install after you have re-sized the partition, in fact > don't > even boot to windows, just boot to the xp cd and run the repair. > > "Mark Dormer" wrote: > >> I would use and have done this many times using BootItNG. >> Do it in maintenance mode and you don't have to install the boot manager. >> Free, though if you like it, register it, as it is well worth it in my >> opinion. >> >> http://www.bootitng.com >> >> Instructions here http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/bootitng.pdf >> and http://members.shaw.ca/bootitng/ >> >> >> Regards >> Mark Dormer >> >> >> "J150" <J150@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:CB65F552-5A66-4EBE-8E26-5543EFBB2A6D@microsoft.com... >> > 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. >> > -- >> > J150 >> > -- >> > J150 >> >> >>
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted July 27, 2007 Posted July 27, 2007 Re: Changing the partition on my hard drive Even if Windows XP had the ability, you'd want to be careful (i.e., make a backup first.) In fact, I'd be more worried about a Windows utility than I would be using BootIt NG. I use BING all the time, resize and rearrange partitions all the time, and I've never had a problem. But I still make an image of the partition(s) before I go to work. I use Acronis True Image these days, but BING includes its own imaging utility. Note that with BING, you download and run an executable that creates the bootable installation floppy. Boot to the floppy then CANCEL the installation. That will drop you into Maintenance Mode where you can access Partition Work. Since you don't actually install the boot manager, which starts the thirty day clock, there's no worry about registration. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "J150" <J150@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:184FE141-4CC0-42D8-9C07-A762F2E780A1@microsoft.com... > Thank you all for your replies. I was hoping there was a built-in XP > mechanism for this, but as Ken Blake wrote, there is not, and I will have > to > be careful if I try any third-party solutions. > -- > J150 > > > "J150" 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. >> -- >> J150 >> -- >> J150
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