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Resizing partitions

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I have four partitions on my hard disk and I want to resize one by taking space away from the other. Is there anyway to do this without reformating the whole drive? I deleted the partition I want to resize and the partition I want to take space from, but I get two portions of unallocated space, not one large one. Help?
 
Partition Tragic - no, it's Magic, excuse the slip of the tongue - will do this. You may have to move one partition around.

And I hope you didn't actually delete any partitions yet...

 
I have a similiar question, but I'm a poor college student. Any cheap/free alternatives?
 
If you can get to a place where you've got the partition you want to enlarge next to a region of empty space, GParted will resize it. However, if the free space is before the partition being resized, you can't do it - NTFS has problems with the partition being moved bit-by-bit, from what I understand. PM deals with this, if I understand correctly.

 
dynamic disks in windblows allow you to grow partition space, if needed. It doesn't support resizing, since the space you will grow into _has_ to be unused.
 
I don't want to dynamic disk my harddrives, too many people have said bad things about it.

And I figured out that NTFS doesn't like to be moved bit by bit that hard way. I moves a partition and it erased my data! Good thing I had it all backed up!!!1
 
drizzt81 said:
dynamic disks in windblows allow you to grow partition space, if needed. It doesn't support resizing, since the space you will grow into _has_ to be unused.
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How do you do this? I've got a 20 gig partition I ghosted onto an 80 gig disk and just want to be able to use the rest without making a new partition.
 
icthus13 said:
How do you do this? I've got a 20 gig partition I ghosted onto an 80 gig disk and just want to be able to use the rest without making a new partition.
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1. disk management
2. Diskpart:
dos prompt
diskpart
list disk
select disk=N (where N is the one you want to grow on)
list partition
select partition=Q (where Q is the partition you want to extend)
Extend

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/diskpart.mspx?mfr=true said:
extend

Extends the volume with focus into next contiguous unallocated space. For basic volumes, the unallocated space must be on the same disk as, and must follow (be of higher sector offset than) the partition with focus. A dynamic simple or spanned volume can be extended to any empty space on any dynamic disk Using this command, you can extend an existing volume into newly created space.

If the partition was previously formatted with the NTFS file system, the file system is automatically extended to occupy the larger partition. No data loss occurs. If the partition was previously formatted with any file system format other than NTFS, the command fails with no change to the partition.

You cannot extend the current system or boot partitions.
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Apparently, it does not need to be a dynamic disk, and it will not support extending the current boot partition, i.e. UBCD or PartPE may be in order.
 
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