Partition On The Fly

[jdunderhill]

My Uncle has asked me if I can repartition his HDD

He has got:

C: 2 GB Windows
D: 20 GB Downloads
E: 58 GB Games

He needs to make the C: drive to something like 10 GB

Is there any "Freeware" programs I can use to repartition the HDD

Will it effect the data by increasing the partition so much?

Thanks

Jamie

 

[awingnut]

I am not aware of any freeware but Partition Magic is the best I've used.

 

[wolluf]

the only free tools I know of are here:-

http://www.ranish.com/part/

(but try google - I've not looked in a while) - and last time I tried any of them, they were not easy to use.

Obviously, commercial apps like Partition Manager will do the job.

PS. It would be possible (especially if you had access to another big drive), to achieve this with lots of copying, resizing and copying back - but its a time consuming task (post back if you want more details about this approach).

btw - what's the operating system?

 

[jdunderhill]

Thanks for your replies, Ive heard of Partition Magic

I dunno about letting a freeware program loose on my Unlces machine, hes got some important data on there, I haven't used a program like it before

I will ask him to move Kazaa downloads over to another partition for a start!, then in the future I could always clone the partitions onto a larger HDD then copy them back over etc

Thanks

Jamie

 

[wolluf]

Jamie - one perhaps obvious point - if you use any partitioning software (freeware or commercial), make sure you back up files you cannot afford to lose (from any partition on the disk) elsewhere. It can always go wrong and leave your disk in a mess. With something like PM, this doesn't happen very often, but just read these forums and you can see that it does happen. My experience suggests more problems with more complication (eg, resizing a partition, changing its filestore type, then merging it with another partition).

 

[Grenage]

Important Data and Kazaa on the same machine?