Okay, so I have Fedora 8 & Windows XP MCE 2002 on my hard drive and I want to shrink the Fedora 8 partition and enlarge my XP partition. (BTW my fedora partition has nothing much on it, and I don't think shrinking it by about 10 GB will kill it, because the partition is about 55 GB and it only has about 5 GBs of files.) I want to increase my XP partition about 10 GB and I was wondering if enlarging a partition can result in file loss?
2007-12-04 14:26:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Yes, there is always a risk that file(s) can be lost which is why I strongly suggest you use a partition manager if you want to go ahead with resizing your hard drive's partitions. There a lot of partition managers available. I found Acronis Disk Director Suite or Norton's Partition Magic to be excellent programs. The bad news is that they're not free. They cost about $80.
2007-12-04 14:38:46 · answer #1 · answered by What the...?!? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Normally you have to use a product like Partition Magic to change the size of a partition. There are no native tools in XP or the 2000 OS's that will let you change the size of a partition.
You have to delete the partition which deletes all data and then make a new partition which will be empty.
2007-12-04 14:36:42 · answer #2 · answered by Citizen1984 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. To change the size of a partition without file damage requires a specialized third-party program. I can recommend Easeus Partition Manager; it worked well for me.
2007-12-04 14:31:57 · answer #3 · answered by Ultraviolet Oasis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What takes place in case you place the rigidity decrease back on the unique laptop? Are the two desktops working the comparable version of residing house windows? case in point, is the 1st one working Vista and the 2d XP?
2016-12-30 05:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋