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Your option is to take it to a shop and pay through the nose so they can use
"their" partition tools.
Believe me, it's much cheaper to own your own partitioning software!
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Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard
"Dave VanHorn" <dvanhorn@cedar.net> wrote in message
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> Brings up an interesting question.
>
> Why does windows not include any partition management tools?
>
> I've <NEVER> replaced a drive with one of the same size, since my first
> hard drive, in '84.
> Every time I do a replacement, the larger space suggests a re-organization
> of the drive partitions.
>
> Unfortunately, I can either do a full image copy, which usually leaves the
> C drive very short on space, or I can do a shred and re-install, which is
> very time consuming.. Or, I can buy someone's very pricey partition tools,
> for a very infrequent task, at about 1/3 the cost of the hard drive.
>
> Every time I need to use them, I need to buy new partition tools, because
> the previous versions won't work with the new schemes/sizes/etc.
>
> Currently, I run partitions as follows:
>
> C: 10G Windows system, drivers, and programs that INSIST on installing to
> C.
> D: 120G Programs that are written by sane people.
> E: 32G Engineering software and projects
> F: 10G Special partition for one big project
> G: 2.5G Windows swapfile
> H: 0.5G Browser cache
> I: 232G Bulk file storage
>
> My other systems mirror at least C/D/E so that the same projects can be
> ported between machines, without having to re-assign where all their files
> live.
>
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