Hard Drive partition

[Eimmar]

I have a 40 gig hard drive split into 3 , a 4 gig , 11 gig and 25 , the 4 gig has the O/S on it which i`ve just updated to windows XP . After doing this the 4 gig is getting a bit full so i wish to resize the partition i`ve tried using partition magic but when it reboots to alter the sizes i`ve made they end up being the same as before . Is there anything else i could do to resize my partitions without re-formatting the whole drive and starting again , many thanks for any help i receive !

 

[lucky9]

Are you running NTFS?
You may have to convert.

I'd try resizing one partition at a time. PM is not (I've used it for years, 7.01) very easy to use and is restrictive and counter -intuative (for me).

I've read (and will try when next I need such) that there are a couple of contenders for my money. At least if I stay in the Windows world.

 

[Eimmar]

I`ve tried partitioning one at a time and at the moment it`s still set for Fat 32 , all the partitions show up ok untill it has to shut down and reboot to apply the changes , could it be because the O/S is on the one i want to increase in size or should that not matter ?

 

[Eimmar]

Do you think this would work ? What if i created another bootable drive by splitting the larger drive then copied over all the contents of my C drive into it then made this the active drive to boot from . It will let me create another split in the other 2 drives just wont let me do anything regarding my c drive .

 

[BadThad]

Sounds like you're not getting the settings correct in PM. I've used it hundreds of times on MANY different PC's/OSes and it's always works.

 

[Eimmar]

That would be fine but it will partition the other 2 partitions ok eg , i can split D and E fine but then to add that split to C to make it bigger it wont do it , thanks anyway

 

[lucky9]

Save whatever you want to keep to CDR's or DVD's (something removable). Destroy the partitions in question. Including the formatting...ie: Unallocated space. Reboot. Expand your C: parition to the size you want...Reboot. Make whatever partitions, etc. that you need. Occasionally the MasterBootRecord will need to be at default. You can have several choices if backups were made.

I've thought that it was necessary to do a low-level format (the consumer version). The manufacturer usually provide a download.

As to those that believe that's overkill. I fail to see why Seagate, etc., provide something like this, if it weren't sometimes a cost effective way to so something that was found to be needed at times.

 

[GregANDTCH]

What version PM are you using?
Make sure it's the one compatible with XP.
Was it installed before WindowsXP?
If so, maybe you need to uninstall it & reinstall it under XP.

Do you think "system restore" is messing with it?
Maybe you should turn it off.
YMMV
:light:

 

[Eimmar]

problem now sorted , i had to convert from fat 32 to ntfs then it split no problem , many thanks for everyones help .