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Title: stupid computer question
Post by: Bigjake on June 30, 2008, 05:00:14 PM

I know I bug you computer literate folks frequently, but since my geek buddy passed on I'm a bit helpless.

So..

Any way to re-partition a hard drive without formating it?  Windoze keeps running out of space and I have plenty of room in other partitions....  Any reasonably easy way of fixing this?  Short answers welcome

 I was hopping to avoid a complete format, but if that's the case, it is what it is.

thanks

Bigjake

Title: Re: stupid computer question
Post by: old school on June 30, 2008, 05:03:16 PM

I have read about that before at the Microsoft site. I think there are quite a few things you have to consider like what kind of partition it is. Most of the thread I have read on it suggest partition software. If you do a search you may be able to find a good one. I have never done it because it was just to complicated for me.

Title: Re: stupid computer question
Post by: liquibyte on June 30, 2008, 05:22:39 PM

Partition Magic for the commercial app and GParted live cd or Parted Magic for the open source (i.e. you don't have to pay for it) options.

Title: Re: stupid computer question
Post by: GigaBuist on July 01, 2008, 05:28:59 AM

Do a full backup before you try anything like this.

I just lost an entire partition doing something that shouldn't have resulted in data loss, but it did.

Title: Re: stupid computer question
Post by: Phyphor on July 01, 2008, 03:34:03 PM

Seconded on the partition magic thing.

And definitely back it all up if you can.... failing that, do make a rescue disk whenever Partition magic asks you if you want one.