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Hey everybody!

Quick questioné for you concerning hard disk partitioning.

My current rig uses a Seagate 7200.10 16MB 500GB as the only drive (so OS, games and apps all on one drive). I'm thinking of maybe getting a Raptor to use as the OS and apps drive, with games and media on the Seagate (though I think a new Seagate 7200.11 500GB may be a better choice).
At the moment my HDD is partitioned into two: a 50GB OS/apps partition with the remainder for games and media (so if I ever come to reinstall the OS I won't lose my stuff).

What I'm asking is this; if I decide to get a Raptor and install the OS/apps on it, can I leave all of my media on the old drive in it's ~450GB partition and then incorporate the old OS 50GB partition into the 450GB (i.e. leaving one large partition) without having to lose/backup all of the games and media?
If so, will my Windows Vista DVD handle this or will I have to use some 3rd party software?

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You will probably need a partioning program such as this http://www.megagames.com/news/html [...] onal.shtml to re-claim (re-size.) the 450GB partition to 500GB or there abouts.


Message edited by johnnyq1233 on 02-24-2008 at 05:05:01 PM

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I've had good luck with Parted magic. All of the other free ones I've found wouldn't resize NTFS, only FAT.

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I don't think it's free and it says it'll do ntfs.


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Cheers guys... info much appreciated! Just gotta decide on the HDD option now :)


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