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Partition Resize/Merge in XP
Name: Steven Lockton Date: April 27, 2003 at 14:21:58 Pacific OS: WinXP Sp1 CPU/Ram: Athlon 1700 - 256Mb RAM
Comment:
I cloned my old 8Gb HD to my new 80Gb drive with Ranish Partition Manager. After making my new drive the C: drive, I noticed that there was an 8Gb partition with ~72Gb unallocated space left on the drive, which I made into a primary partition (D:) using Disk Management in windows.
Is there any software in WindowsXP, or any freeware or shareware that could either merge these two partitions (C: with D:), or resize the C: partition to make it 40Gb (as that was what I intended to do with the drive in the first place)?
I know Partition Magic could do the job, but does anyone know of any shareware I could download, or any method that I'm unaware of to fix my problem.
Name: CyberSlug Date: April 27, 2003 at 14:34:51 Pacific
Reply:
For freeware, look at Partition Resizer. It can only resize FAT/FAT32 partitions, but you can move any type of partition. I actually used this program with Windows 98 before I upgraded to Windows XP.
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Response Number 2
Name: Steven Lockton Date: April 27, 2003 at 16:03:54 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the response CS, I tried that program and it wouldn't recognise ant of my drives. Have you used it successfully with NTFS partitions before?
Are there any other free/shareware programs out there?
Steve
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Response Number 3
Name: Sci-Guy Date: April 27, 2003 at 17:43:02 Pacific
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