Can I resize partitions in Win2k?

Muse

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I installed Win2k for the first time yesterday, and my primary partition is 40 GB of a 40 GB drive. There's a secondary partition of 8 MB. I want to have my primary partition just 4 GB and create several other partitions. Can I do that or do I have to reinstall Win2k, reformating the whole HD? Thanks.

Dan:confused:
 

Saltin

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If you move to Dynamic disk mode then you can, but you cant change your boot partition.
I would recommend Partition Magic or some similar 3rd party software.
 

Nevo

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In theory, it can be done. The OS has a IOCTL defined that allows a program to tell the OS to do it.

However, I'm unaware of any utilities that take advantage of this functionality.

I don't think you'll be able to use that 8MB area. The way that W2K calculates things, I think you'll always see that 8MB of unallocated space. I don't know the details of why, tho.
 

neuralfx

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Partition Resizer try this, you can only resize the partitions with diskmanagement, only if the volumes were initialy created as dynamic disk, as far as i know, but this program should work for u, jus put it on a boot disk, and try it .. good
luck ..
-neural
 

Shadow07

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You can use Partition Magic. However, if the version of Windows 2000 is the Server versions, you will have to use ServerMagic. Partition Magic will not work on the Server versions of Windows 2000.
 

neuralfx

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well it's not if its a server version, it's ntfs, u need the Server version of partition magic to work with NTFS, PM will work on a Win2kserver formated with fat32 though, pretty sure, but could be wrong ..
-neural