is norton ghost, partition magic supposed to work on NTFS?

[Richard Urban]

Nothing that is included with "any" version of Windows XP will allow you to
modify an existing partition. It's delete and recreate - or nothing!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Ron Sommer]

This is not for beginning users, but it is a lot cheaper than Partition
Magic.
I use BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full
functional trial)

 

[Peter Wilkins]

No, I don't think that'll work --- I've got a "Disk Management" icon andit
shows me how the partitions are configured, but threre's no way to modify
anything other than account quotas, drive names, drivers, the color scheme
of the disk usage map, disk sharing, and there's dialog boxes for defragging
and error checking, but nothing at all for modifying pre-existing partition
structure.

Disk Mgt will let you create partitions in unused space or delete
existing partitions and then create new ones, but you CANT modify size
of an existing partition without losing the data - for that you need
PM or similar. I thought the original query was just how to create a
partition without getting PM, which is why I mentioned the Admin
tools.

If you right-click on a partition graphic, you should get an option to
delete that partition (but it grays out the option for the boot
drive!). If you do that, then you can create several new partitions
(of smaller size) in the unused space made available.