Trying to add more space

[Guest]

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I have a 20GB hard drive that still has 6GB of available space. The
drive currently has 2 partitions, one is 8GB (C drive) and the other is
4GB (E drive). I'm trying to figure out a way to add the 6GB to the 8GB
to make it a 14GB partition and leaving all the data intact. Which is
WinXP Home and other Windows applications and data. Possible? Any
recommendations?

 

[peter]

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Do a Google for a program called BootItNG.........download and install.
Read the instruction on making a bootable floppy.
Read the instuctions on partition work.
it works and it works great
peter
"d28" <kevindu28@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have a 20GB hard drive that still has 6GB of available space. The
> drive currently has 2 partitions, one is 8GB (C drive) and the other is
> 4GB (E drive). I'm trying to figure out a way to add the 6GB to the 8GB
> to make it a 14GB partition and leaving all the data intact. Which is
> WinXP Home and other Windows applications and data. Possible? Any
> recommendations?
>

 

[Guest]

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PM worked perfectly. There is an option to redistribute available free
space whether it was allocated or not. Now my pervious 8GB partition
is now 14.1GB. Just what I wanted. Amazing thing was it took all of 5
or so minutes to complete the operations. Thanks for the responses.

 

[Guest]

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Partition Magic - Symantec product, or whatever partitioning program you
like.

"d28" <kevindu28@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1108264837.336327.20440@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I have a 20GB hard drive that still has 6GB of available space. The
> drive currently has 2 partitions, one is 8GB (C drive) and the other is
> 4GB (E drive). I'm trying to figure out a way to add the 6GB to the 8GB
> to make it a 14GB partition and leaving all the data intact. Which is
> WinXP Home and other Windows applications and data. Possible? Any
> recommendations?
>

 

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What happened to D:? On a 20 GB drive, you say C is 8GB, E is 4GB - you
haven't mentioned D: which mathematically must be 8GB.
You cannot merge C: and E: (non-consecutive partitions).
Do it in 3 stages (4, if you take care and back-up your E:\data to CD's -
Recommended but not essential if you want to take a chance, personally had
no probs with Partition Magic, doing it without back-up)

First, defrag all 3 partitions ( partition adjustments work better on
contiguous files)
Second, merge D: and E: - you now have C: = 8GB, and D: = 12GB (including
all the data currently on E
Finally, change partition C: to the partition size of your choice. which
will automatically reduce D: likewise.

Better yet - invest in a new HDD. 20GB total is not a lot of space, XP takes
a lot. Make the 20GB HDD a single boot disk C:, use the new HDD as slave for
whatever partition size/usage you want.

Sincerely, Len

" <kevindu28@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1108264837.336327.20440@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I have a 20GB hard drive that still has 6GB of available space. The
> drive currently has 2 partitions, one is 8GB (C drive) and the other is
> 4GB (E drive). I'm trying to figure out a way to add the 6GB to the 8GB
> to make it a 14GB partition and leaving all the data intact. Which is
> WinXP Home and other Windows applications and data. Possible? Any
> recommendations?
>

 

[Guest]

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I think that D is a second physical drive..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm





"yabbadoo" <lsdolby@ignore.ntlwor.com> wrote in message
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> What happened to D:? On a 20 GB drive, you say C is 8GB, E is 4GB - you
> haven't mentioned D: which mathematically must be 8GB.
> You cannot merge C: and E: (non-consecutive partitions).
> Do it in 3 stages (4, if you take care and back-up your E:\data to CD's -
> Recommended but not essential if you want to take a chance, personally had
> no probs with Partition Magic, doing it without back-up)
>
> First, defrag all 3 partitions ( partition adjustments work better on
> contiguous files)
> Second, merge D: and E: - you now have C: = 8GB, and D: = 12GB (including
> all the data currently on E
> Finally, change partition C: to the partition size of your choice. which
> will automatically reduce D: likewise.
>
> Better yet - invest in a new HDD. 20GB total is not a lot of space, XP
> takes a lot. Make the 20GB HDD a single boot disk C:, use the new HDD as
> slave for whatever partition size/usage you want.
>
> Sincerely, Len
>
> " <kevindu28@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1108264837.336327.20440@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>I have a 20GB hard drive that still has 6GB of available space. The
>> drive currently has 2 partitions, one is 8GB (C drive) and the other is
>> 4GB (E drive). I'm trying to figure out a way to add the 6GB to the 8GB
>> to make it a 14GB partition and leaving all the data intact. Which is
>> WinXP Home and other Windows applications and data. Possible? Any
>> recommendations?
>>
>
>