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Allocating more space to C drive

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AntLyoN

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Whats going on fellas? My friend asked me for some help on partitions and I am not sure if this is possible. Here is the situation... A friend has pre-built comp and the C drive is partitioned. One of the partitions is 15gb, so I assume this is for system recovery. He wants to know if he can use a proggie like PartitionMagic and allocate some of those 15gb into the other partition?

He has an extra 80gb drive and I told him it would be better simply to add the drive to his comp but he feels he is wasting that extra space that he already has.

I am really swamped at work so I do not have time to look into this for him so any help you guys can give me will be greatly appreciated.
 
I've used partition magic before to crunch 2 partitions together, however I haven't taken a piece of a partition and moved it to another.
 
When I bought my laptop from Dell, I did exactly that (and installed a clean copy of XP less all their bloatware). It had a hidden ~2GB "recovery" partition. Since I have a real (CD) copy of XP, all I needed was the XP key anyway (which was on the sticker).

If you're doing this along with a reinstall, you can do it while installing (just delete the partitions and re-create them) or you can use PM.
 
Partition tools sometimes hiccup and destroy the partitions they're working on, so your firend must be sure to back up email and any files he cares about before trying this.

Just adding a new drive is definitely easier.
 
I'll say just force him to install an additional hdd. Buying the proggie PM will cost you about the same with a 160GB hdd or at least 80GB hdd. So why bother with a PM? Extra space? Yeah right, that's what I said with my first hdd, a voluminous 20MB! That is a mega with capital M!
 
If you don't mind a reformat and reinstall, you don't have to buy any programs to do it: when you are at the Windows installation screen, just create the partitions as big or small as you like.
 
Really appreciate all the help. I'll recommend that he installs the second hard drive. I told him it would be better in the off chance something was to happen to his primary drive he would not loose all his files. Thanks again.
 
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