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| 278413 | 2004-10-05 07:23:00 | Hi All Running XP Home on a 60GB drive. Partitioned as "C" 29GB & "F" 27GB, approx. C is filling up & I would lke to increase C from F. How di I change the partition line to take from F & give to c. Without disturbing any data. That comp is doing a Defrag at the moment, showing C as FAT 32 File system & F as NTFS. Thanks PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 278414 | 2004-10-05 09:15:00 | Use Partition Magic Delete the NTFS partition and expand the FAT32. Be prepared for possible problems with expanding a FAT32 partition beyond 32Gb without using a DDO by doing a full backup before attempting any alterations. Men's faults are many, Women have but two. Everything they say, And everything they do |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 278415 | 2004-10-05 09:28:00 | Partition Magic costs money . PJ, it will be cheaper and easier for you to shift your data files off the C drive on to the F drive to make more room . Just create a new folder on F called Documents and move all the stuff out of My Documents into the new folder . That should be enough to make some room and if you need more for new programs then just install those on the F drive as well instead of C drive . |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 278416 | 2004-10-05 09:37:00 | possible free trial (www.softpedia.com) may help? | KatiMike (242) | ||
| 278417 | 2004-10-05 18:42:00 | > possible free trial ( . softpedia . com/public/cat/13/8/13-8-2 . s" target="_blank">www . softpedia . com > tml) may help? I think the demo is not fully functional - only lets you see what you can do, not actually capable of doing it |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 278418 | 2004-10-05 20:28:00 | Partition magic is quite costly but if you already have a copy of norton ghost then use it, f not buy one from tradme (norton system works contains ghost) you can get it for only about $35) anyway.......take a ghost image of the info, onto cd or another spare hdd, from both partitons then useing a 98 boot disk and fdisk delete the existing partitions then recreate them in the ratio you wish (40gb + 20gb - or whatever). then write the images back to the new partitionss. you wont lose any info and it should work fine as...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 278419 | 2004-10-06 04:38:00 | The worst culprits are probably your digital photographs, PJ. Move them to the NTFS partition, and C: should have lots of room. :D It's safest to leave partitions alone. I've seen so many people complaining that they have lost all their data, when "all" they did was use Partition Magic to rearrange their partitions. ;-) Partitioning doesn't lose information when it's done to empty disks. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 278420 | 2004-10-06 06:04:00 | exactly that's why i'd suggest imageing the data first......... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 278421 | 2004-10-06 06:32:00 | > Hi All > Running XP Home on a 60GB drive. Partitioned as "C" > 29GB & "F" 27GB, approx. C is filling up & I would > lke to increase C from F. How di I change the > partition line to take from F & give to c. Without > disturbing any data. > That comp is doing a Defrag at the moment, showing C > as FAT 32 File system & F as NTFS. Thanks PJ So how many physical hard drives do you have installed? Drive letters can be changed in WinXP but I am wondering what is drive D: and E: and do you have a G: H: I: etc? Is drive D and E assigned to optical drives? |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 278422 | 2004-10-06 07:54:00 | Elephant......... A = 3.25 Floppy B = Zilch C = 60GB drive D = CD Read drive E = Read/Write drive F = Partition of C No others. PJ |
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