Is it possible to increase partition size?

[puck]

My primary partition in win2k pro is only 6GB and there is not enough free space to defrag it, which it desperately needs. Is there a way to increase the partition size without ghosting it, deleting it, and creating a new one to restore the ghost image? If I do this is it easy to take space from the other partition without deleting it?

 

[BChico]

Use a third party program like partition magic, works fine.

 

[bacillus]

have a look at partition magic! 🙂

 

[puck]

So this can't be done within win2k os?

 

[BChico]

Yes sir, with partition magic.

 

[Mitzi]

<< So this can't be done within win2k os? >>



Not without additional software such as Partition Magic.

 

[emoney]

Windows XP has a program, called I think disk mananger, that may do a better job than PM. If you use PM with XP make sure it is ver 7.0. Thanks, emoney

 

[mpitts]

Disk Management in 2K/XP will not allow you to resize a partition without destroying the data on the drive. Partition Magic (which I use all the time) will let you resize partitions without harming the data on them.

 

[Devistater]

I've used partition magic a couple times before to do stuff like resize. Works like a charm. Of course as they warn you its a good idea to back up stuff, but I've used it without losing data. In fact you might even gain 10 megs or so on the resize, since fdisk usually missed out on about 8 megs or so on a drive. 🙂

 

[freebsddude]

<< My primary partition in win2k pro is only 6GB and there is not enough free space to defrag it, which it desperately needs. Is there a way to increase the partition size without ghosting it, deleting it, and creating a new one to restore the ghost image? If I do this is it easy to take space from the other partition without deleting it? >>



No, cant be done in W2K, it will clear your partition. Use partition magic, works fine.

 

[Mrburns2007]

My advice is to not use Partition Magic it can really screw up a W2k install, I do recommend Partition Commander which is a lot more reliable. Partition Commander is by V do a serach on google to get more info.

 

[Nothinman]

My advice is to not use Partition Magic it can really screw up a W2k install, I do recommend Partition Commander which is a lot more reliable. Partition Commander is by V do a serach on google to get more info.

Any time you do soemthing like this you run the chance of losing all the data on the partition, but I've used Partition Magic hundreds of times and only had it fail a few of them, it's pretty reliable.