Changing partition size

[Guest]

My 80 gig drive is partitioned with drive C : 20 gigs & drive D : 60 gigs.
Is there a way that I can take 10 gigs from D drive and transfer it to C
drive without having to buy a program or reformatting my drive and
repartitioning.

 

[Jayso]

Partition Magic (can't remember site, but it's owned by Symantec now i
think)

I'll warn you though be careful, and backup important files

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[Blair]

My 80 gig drive is partitioned with drive C : 20 gigs & drive D : 60 gigs.
Is there a way that I can take 10 gigs from D drive and transfer it to C
drive without having to buy a program or reformatting my drive and
repartitioning.

No
Just buy Partition Commander Ver 8. It's really good
Blair

 

[cycomiko]

the product was called partition magic and the company was powerquest.

i think now its basically the same product and its even called by the
same name, only difference being that it now is a symantec brand.

 

[Lil' Dave]

No.

 

[Gordon]

My 80 gig drive is partitioned with drive C : 20 gigs & drive D : 60
gigs. Is there a way that I can take 10 gigs from D drive and
transfer it to C drive without having to buy a program or
reformatting my drive and repartitioning.

20 GB is MORE than adequate to run the OS and apps in. Have you moved all
the Users documents and email etc to the D drive?

 

[Stan Brown]

My 80 gig drive is partitioned with drive C : 20 gigs & drive D : 60 gigs.
Is there a way that I can take 10 gigs from D drive and transfer it to C
drive without having to buy a program or reformatting my drive and
repartitioning.

No.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the
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--Daniel Dennett, /Darwin's Dangerous Idea/ (1995), page 46

 

[Ken Blake]

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My 80 gig drive is partitioned with drive C : 20 gigs & drive D
: 60
gigs. Is there a way that I can take 10 gigs from D drive and
transfer it to C drive without having to buy a program or
reformatting my drive and repartitioning.

Short of reformatting and repartitioning, there's no way to do
this with Windows facilities. A third-party program is required.

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, but it comes highly recommended by
several other MVPs here.

 

[Ron Martell]

My 80 gig drive is partitioned with drive C : 20 gigs & drive D : 60 gigs.
Is there a way that I can take 10 gigs from D drive and transfer it to C
drive without having to buy a program or reformatting my drive and
repartitioning.

BootItNG from www.bootitng.com will do the resizing for you.

When you download the program you have a 30 day free trial period with
full functionality before you have to purchase it.

For a one-shot partitioning change you can download the file but *do
not* install it. Instead just create the diskette. Boot your
computer with the diskette and go into the maintenance mode. You can
make non-destructive changes to your partitions there.

But make sure you have all your critical data backed up before you
make changes. Accidents do happen, and Murphy's Law seems to
guarantee that if you do not have a backup then you will need it, and
if you do have a backup it won't be needed.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

 

[Bruce Chambers]

My 80 gig drive is partitioned with drive C : 20 gigs & drive D : 60 gigs.
Is there a way that I can take 10 gigs from D drive and transfer it to C
drive without having to buy a program or reformatting my drive and
repartitioning.

BootItNG ( www.bootitng.com )offers a free, 30-day evaluation download
that can do that for you.


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Bruce Chambers

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