Need to know of a program or method whereby I can move some of the avavilable space over to another side of the hard drive. This is a 60 gb harddrive, split with a partition,designating C and D as drives, I need to move space from D to C, due to too small of a partition. If it matters I am running windows 200 pro. on an asus board. with a western digital hard drive.
2006-10-18 15:15:11 · 7 answers · asked by thugtwin1@sbcglobal.net 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Best way to do this is with the program called "Partition Magic". It's costly, but will do what you want to accomplish the resizing of partitions without losing data. See the below link to read about it. Good luck.
2006-10-18 16:07:45 · answer #1 · answered by Jolly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need to re-assign the partitions... defragmenting will not do what you ask.
There is a product called Partition Commander which will do it, or you can set up a boot disk with a minimum operating system and the program fdisk on it.
Have a care, though... many computers come with a second partition on the main disk as a recovery source... all the files that you might need if you had to rebuild your system are there.
And do be sure to back up everything before you start... none of it will be there when you get done :-)
2006-10-18 15:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by IanP 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-26 22:54:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the last time i checked..you werent able to actually change the sizes of partitions...im guessing the only option is to reformat them, but copying the data onto an external drive or maybe even a secondary hdd
2006-10-18 16:09:28 · answer #4 · answered by untitled10101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stop being cheap, and buy a second drive. 80 GB drives are $50 now, and 300 GB drives are less than $100.
2006-10-18 20:22:36 · answer #5 · answered by alchemist_n_tx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
um, thought of moving files from one drive to the other instead? it's a little cheaper, not to mention logical
2006-10-18 15:33:35 · answer #6 · answered by metallhd62 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
defragment it.
start > programs > accessories > systems tools > disc defragmenter
2006-10-18 15:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by 987654321abc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋