Increasing partition size

Fibonacci

If I have a patition on my hard drive, say hard drives C and E. How can I increase the size of Hard Drive E?

Esel

First, you must decrease the size of C?

tman

esel wrote:

First, you must decrease the size of C?

not necessarily...
to resize the e drive, you'd need to have some free space either before or after it. chances are that if you resized the c drive, you'd also have to move the d drive as well.

this is all very risky business, and can take hours or days to do. you're better off backing up all of your data, then deleting and recreating your partitions...

use partition magic to resize partitions at your own risk

Fibonacci

Sorry, should have explained things a bit better....

I have only two drives: C & E. Of my total hard drive space, say 100, currently C has 95 and E has 5. I want to make the split 90/10 instead. There is excess room in the C drive.....

How do I go about doing this? Cheers!

lomb

get partition magic.

galwaydude

ditto !! partition magic is excellent and really easy to use. If you dont have it then go here http://www.click-now.net/html/PartitionMagic.htm its proberly a 30 day trile for better than nothing. Can also use google for more options.

stuey

use Partition Magic at your own risk!!

I wont go near it. The amount of times it has buggered pc(s) for me has put me off it completly

Nukem

Right click on my computer and go to manage > then go to Disk managment (cant remember and im in college so it wont let me) and you may be able to soft manage the partitions

Partition Magic 8.0 is fine to use. Just need to be very careful with it.

vishal

use norton partition magic

Chucky

stuey wrote:

use Partition Magic at your own risk!!

I wont go near it. The amount of times it has buggered pc(s) for me has put me off it completly

Agreed. Whenever I have used Partition Magic it has messed up my computer. I made a recovery disk once (Partition magic said to use it if I wanted to revert back to a single partition). So I used the disk on boot-up, the disk didn't do what it was supposed to, and my whole disk was fecked.

In the past I have found that using partitions is a nuisance and don't even dream of having two different file systems on the partitions!

Orion

I've used PM a lot and never had any problems. But be sensible and make sure you back up any critical data before doing anything with it. With the best will in the world playing with partitions is tricky business and you could screw up your hdd beyond all recognition.

Fibonacci

Thanks for all the advice.....

Think I might just leave it. Seems to be a lot more work than I thought! and much higher risk of stuff going wrong!

Nukem

Fibonacci wrote:

Think I might just leave it. Seems to be a lot more work than I thought! and much higher risk of stuff going wrong!

It aint that hard at all. You can do this through reinstalloing your OS as well. Have a 160Gb broken into 5 drives (games,music.......) its real easy.
google and read up on it.There is even a few tutorials for partioning tools

Chucky

What would be the benefit of partitioning a drive for "games,music......."?

Capt'n Midnight

stuey wrote:

use Partition Magic at your own risk!!

I wont go near it. The amount of times it has buggered pc(s) for me has put me off it completly

Gotta agree.

Backup everything
Delete junk and Defrag the drives to free up space.
Boot up off a knoppix CD, run qtparted and you can simply resize FAT32 partitions, if they are NTFS then into options and choose ntfsresize before you shirk the partitions.

To make ntfs partitions bigger - use the disk administrator/manager in windows.

If the drives are SATA then - Knoppix26 apci=off (you may need other cheat codes too depending on the PC)

Nukem

Chucky wrote:

What would be the benefit of partitioning a drive for "games,music......."?

Find it easier to share drives on a network rather than folders....etc......
And also its easier to get around. Used to have it with folders and ....pah! its annoying