Repartition of hard drive

[steve wilson]

Hi,
About 10 years ago I partitioned a 40gb hard drive into two equal parts. I installed windows 98 on one half and windows xp on the other half. We need windows 98 for an old clocking on system that wouldn't work with xp. I am running out of space on the windows xp part of the hard drive and have 19.5gb of space left on the windows 98 partition. Can I repartition the hard drive and give 35gb to win xp and 5gb to win 98?

I can't remember what software I used to do it originally. I think it was disk partition magic. If this is possible please can you recommend the right software to do it.

Thanks
Steve

 

[postmortemIA]

I don't think that XP partition will like change in start location of partition... tool to use is open source gparted, but be warned that most likely xp partition won't boot anymore

a good alternative would be to run windows 98 inside VM.

 

[corkyg]

A 40GB HDD is getting to be borderline too small. I would get a larger HDD and clone the 40GB to it proportionally. I would also give serious thought about reconsidering the need for such an old "clocking on" process - whatever that is.

Your system sounds tooo old to use a HDD greater than 180GB. You may have to shop "used" to find one.

Partition Madic was able to do what you ask. The best contemporary software for that, IMHO, is Acronis Disk Director.

 

[mikeymikec]

Connect the disk to a newer machine and use a newer version of Windows's Disk Management tool to resize the partitions?

A 35GB partition is easily large enough for WinXP (not including your own data and extra apps you need). A fully patched/updated copy of XP probably uses about 8GB (that's being generous).

The only complication I've encountered when running XP in small (much smaller than 35GB, more like 4GB) partitions is that while most other data can be stored in other locations, I didn't ever succeed in convincing XP to let me re-locate C:\WINDOWS\INSTALLERS, which is where the msi files for an awful lot of installed apps end up.

 

[bigi]

Any USB bootable Linux distro has GParted. 10 minute job total.