Can Partition Magic do this job? Or ..?

[Gerrit Lansink]

I work with a dual boot system (XP and 98) controlled by Boot
Magic/Partition Magic 7.0.
WindowsXP as well as Windows98 are on partition C: of Hard Disk 1.
Since I want to upgrade Windows XP with Service Pack 2 I need to
enlarge the C: partition. Therefore I created with Partition Magic an
unallocated partition (2 GB). But ... Partition Manager can't enlarge
the C: partition with these 2 GB. What can I do?

Disk 1 (60 GB) has following partitions (as indicated by Partition
Magic 7.0):
Disk Partition Type Size MB Used Unused Status Prim/Log
1C: FAT32 4.996,7 4.708,5 288,3 Active Primary
1 *: Unallocated 2.000,3 0,0 0,0 None Primary
1 *: FAT32 4.996,8 719,2 4.277,6 Hidden Primary
1 *: Extended 46.649,7 46.649,7 0,0 None Primary
1 G: FAT32 46.649,7 36.708,3 9.941,5 None Logical

Disk 2 (20 GB):
Disk Partition Type Size MB Used Unused Status Prim/Log
2 *: Unallocated 7,8 0,0 0,0 None Primary
2 F: FAT32 19.524,3 11.815,3 7.708,5 None Primary

 

[Alex Nichol]

I work with a dual boot system (XP and 98) controlled by Boot
Magic/Partition Magic 7.0.
WindowsXP as well as Windows98 are on partition C: of Hard Disk 1.
Since I want to upgrade Windows XP with Service Pack 2 I need to
enlarge the C: partition. Therefore I created with Partition Magic an
unallocated partition (2 GB). But ... Partition Manager can't enlarge
the C: partition with these 2 GB. What can I do?

It does not show in the tables you give, but the free space needs to be
physically next to the partition you want to expand. This should show
up in PM's graphical interface when run under the system it is
installed on (presumably the Win98), and you set up the changes you need
there. It then reboots the machine to run the DOS mode program to
actually carry out the work