resize partitions

[Guest]

I am working on a friends XP computer that keeps giving me the message that
ther is low disk space. I looked at the the, and it has a single 160 GB HDD
that is split into 3 partitions: the first for Windows, the second for
programs, and the third for data. The Windows partition is a primary
partition that is only 5 GB in size and only has about 200 MB of free space
remaining, hence the warning. The other two partitions are logical drives
within the same extended partition. The partition that holds the data, is
105 GB in size and has 104 GB of free space. I found a free utility on the
web that was able to pull off some unused free space from this partition.
So, I removed 30 GB of free space and it now sits as unused space. Is there
a way to move this 30 GB of unused free space onto the 5 GB Primary (Windows)
partition? Maybe I'm going about this all wrong and there is another
solution to this problem. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated!
Thanks.

Jeff

 

[Ayush]

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I am working on a friends XP computer that keeps giving me the
message that ther is low disk space. I looked at the the, and it has
a single 160 GB HDD that is split into 3 partitions: the first for
Windows, the second for programs, and the third for data. The
Windows partition is a primary partition that is only 5 GB in size
and only has about 200 MB of free space remaining, hence the warning.
The other two partitions are logical drives within the same extended
partition. The partition that holds the data, is 105 GB in size and
has 104 GB of free space. I found a free utility on the web that was
able to pull off some unused free space from this partition. So, I
removed 30 GB of free space and it now sits as unused space. Is
there a way to move this 30 GB of unused free space onto the 5 GB
Primary (Windows) partition? Maybe I'm going about this all wrong
and there is another solution to this problem. Any suggestions or
help would be appreciated! Thanks.

1. To disable those warnings :
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1051/

2. To resize the partition ( Be careful, backup data ):
<http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/partitioning.html>

 

[DL]

Acronis True Image, has I believe, a fully functioning trial

 

[Jonny]

The whole idea with incorporating space from one area of the hard disk to
another is to have that freespace immediately adjacent to the partition you
want this space incorporated to. This may take more than one step of the
moving process of freespace.
Bear in mind, apparently, the 2nd logical drive is at and WITHIN the end of
the extended partition. The extended partition is after the primary
partition. The extended partition is a space using entity, just like any
other partition.

 

[Guest]

thanks for the suggestions. i will try them and see what happens!

Jeff