Is there any way to incerase the partion size without having to reformat and re-install everything? ALso, I cannot purchase Partition Magic. I accidentially made my "C" drive too small and did not realize until after I had loaded everything. I need to steal some space from "D". Also, how do you reformat a drive where your O/S is installed? WHen I try, I get the message "Windows cannot format this drive", blah, blah, blah!!!. I have no floppy to boot from.....What to do? What to do?

You can't resize partitions that are in use without using 3rd party software like partition magic. Do not format the drive unless you are willing to lose everything on it! You will lose all data and have to reinstall the system.

Dude, I guess I am willing to format because I do need more space, however, I have tried and it will not let me!!! How do I go about reformatting a drive where Windows is currently running? THANKS! WW

You have to be out of windows. Since you want to change the partition sizes, you will need to boot with a bootdisk floppy like win98. At the prompt A:\> type fdisk and press enter. In the fdisk menu, select #3 to delete partitions. Once you delete them and create new ones, you need to reboot. Another way to do things with w2k is to go into bios and make the cdrom boot. After the machine boots from the w2k cdrom and setup gets going, there is an option to delete and create partitions.

There is a way to fake windows into thinking there is more drive space by using space on a different partition by creating a mounted volume from an empty partition and then pointing the new volume to a folder on the C: drive. Here is an example what you end up with. notice how the icon for the folder Downloads is different. What I have basically done was I had 2 partitions on the same physical drive and combined them into one drive. Below is an image from the disk manager. The 7.38 gig partition is the Downloads folder on the C: drive. Below is a link to how to do this. How to create a mounted Volume in Windows 2000