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Greetings folks,
You almost don't want to know why I'm asking, but...is there any free app that allows one to change the size of HD partitions on a Windows XP SP2 box? Data integrity is important, but if you said it had a 99% chance of success, that would probably do it for me (in other words, the data is important but I've got a back-up and while it'd be a PitB to re-install, it wouldn't be the end of the world )
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What are you trying to do? Reclaim space? You might just need to use the old Diskpart utility that you can run from a command prompt.
More details about how the hard drive is set up (mutliple partiions? 1 partition but free space still hanging out there?)
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Wow--thanks for the lightning quick responses.
onthedownlow, I've got a C:\ partition with 240MB left and a D:\ partition with 27GB left. There is no extra space on my whopping 60GB HD. I'd like to "move" some of the extra space from the D:\ partition to the C:\ partition. I *hope* that was enough info.
ztirffritz and MGS_forgot_password, I'll follow up on your suggestions.
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If you have files on the C partition that are just data files (as opposed to Applications) I'd just move them to the D partition. You are taking a pretty big risk of having to start over with the small amount of free space you currently have on the C drive if you try to resize partitions. On the other hand if you haven't nuked and burned in a while, you'd gain a lot by doing just that with a Windows box.
Or toss in another drive and move the stuff on D over, and (using tools mentioned above) delete the D drive and add the space to C.
It's somewhat risky.
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I was always under the impression that Partition Magic was exactly for this kind of thing -- live partition making and alteration. It's been around for a while (since the 21st century, at least!)
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partition magic is not free and it too fails occasionally. It is about the same as GParted.
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I've been lucky, and have made and deleted live partitions on my MacBook to my primary drive. I figured if it was the same as creating one for BootCamp, it would be safe.
I wonder if you could connect the drive to a Mac and do what you needed??
