Resizing a system drive with partition magic, can it be done

[Combfilter]

If I have some older machines that were nt4.0 and upgraded to 2k. They
all still have the 2.0g system partion, that is too small for the
applications of these days. I was wondering if you can use partition
magic to resize that partition? I was told that you cannot resize the
system partion unless you want to lose everything.. Is this true?

 

[Guest]

No , Not true. Partition Magic will work fine.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You can not resize a FAT16 partition and I do not believe you can do a
non-destructive upgrade from NT to XP.

FAT16 partitions have a limit of 2.0 GB. NT 4 can not use FAT32.

However, if you are using Windows 2000, you may be able to convert the
partition to FAT32 and then you could expand it with Partition Magic.
However, this is very long to do and not guarantied to succeed.

Y.

 

[Alex Nichol]

If I have some older machines that were nt4.0 and upgraded to 2k. They
all still have the 2.0g system partion, that is too small for the
applications of these days. I was wondering if you can use partition
magic to resize that partition? I was told that you cannot resize the
system partion unless you want to lose everything.. Is this true?

That only applies to methods available in the system itself. Third
party products can do it - Partition Magic version 8, or BootIT NG, from
http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full functional trial)
both work well. But always ensure you back up critical data on the
partitions affected first, just in case