Hello, i need some help to reesize my primary partition, i have 2 disks, one of 8 gb and another 4.35gb, the first one have two partitions one of 2 gb in format fat and another 6.21 in ntfs, and the second disk one partition of 4.35 gb, i pretend to install a new hard dis to expand my first partition to 4 or 5 gb, what software can i use to do this ?, partition magic? or if u know some software help me Greetings Salvador Recio Monterrey NL; Mexico

your primary partition can't be bigger than 4 gig's. NT has a bug in it that won't allow it to works if its installed on a primary partition larger than 4 gig. Also, NT has to be installed on the first 4 gigs of a drive.

Partiton Magic would be one programme to use. It allows you to expand partition sizes (as long as there is free space on the HD, or you are able to free up some space before increasing the partition); also allows you shrink some partitions. PM6x and later are OK for windows '9x/NT/W2K.

666 not so... If you configure the HD/Primary as ntfs on another NT system then it can be upto 7.8gig. It would be a combined system and boot-partition containing both boot/start-up files and the actual system files (the OS itself). The 4Gig limit is imposed during set-up only; because even if the primary partition is to be ntfs it starts out as fat16 and that 'is' limited to 4Gig under NT. The first sector of the boot-partition has to start before the 4Gig limit (physically) on the HD; from M$ KB: X86-based computers running Windows NT do not start if the "multi()" syntax is used in the Boot.ini file and the first sector of the partition to which Windows NT is installed is 4 GB or more into the disk. That is, if the cumulative size of other partitions and unpartitioned free space before the partition to which Windows NT is installed is greater than or equal to 4 GB. S_recio: have a read of: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-2.html it explains all about partitions for various OS; the actual NT section is down towards the end of the article (includes links to M$ KB articles).