Is it possible to increase partition size?

[magomago]

I hae a 80 gig WD hd....now My "main" drive is 50 gigs(39 gigs free) and my secondary drive is 20 gigs.

on that secondary drive i stick my animes - now I'm just about full and wondering if i can siphon around 20 gigs to the Anime drive without reinstalling, reformatting?


I want it like:


|parition 1|Parittion 2|


NOT:

|partition1|p2||p1||part2||pa1|

You see what I'm saying? Is that possible or is a reformat the best answer?

 

[mechBgon]

I haven't done it myself, but if you upgrade your drive to Dynamic Disk then you can supposedly resize partitions on the fly. I think you would have to reduce the size of your larger partition, then add the newly-available capacity to the smaller one. Make sure to close all running programs and software before doing this, and don't sue me if it ends up not working Do you have another system you can back your stuff up to over the network before starting?

 

[PraetorianGuards]

You would have to get a program called "Partition magic" to do something like that.