Can I increase the size of C without formatting?

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I have two partitions, Drive C and Drive D. My drive C is full but I have
alot of memory on D. Can I increase the size of C by allocating the memory
from D without formating my computer?
 
Joel, a third party app like Partition Magic will do that for you. Just
do a Google search for it.
 
Joel said:
I have two partitions, Drive C and Drive D. My drive C is full but I
have alot of memory on D. Can I increase the size of C by allocating
the memory from D without formating my computer?
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Hard drive space is *NOT* memory - RAM is memory - hard drive space is hard
drive space.
 
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Joel said:
I have two partitions, Drive C and Drive D. My drive C is full
but I
have alot of memory on D. Can I increase the size of C by
allocating
the memory from D without formating my computer?
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First, note that the term "memory" is normally reserved for RAM,
not for for hard disk space.

No version of Windows or DOS has ever had the ability to change
the partition structure of a drive without losing all the data on
it. To do so requires the use of a third-party program. Partition
Magic is the best-known such program, but there are
shareware/freeware alternatives. One shareware product that gets
good reports from several MVPs (although I haven't used it
personally) is Bootit Next Generation.
 
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Doug Knox MS-MVP said:
You should try it, Ken. While its primary purpose is to be a
full
featured boot manager, it also has very good partition
management
tools.
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Thanks, Doug. You're not the only person to have said that, and I
believe all of you. The only reason I've never tried it is that
I've never needed its capabilities. If and when I do, I will.
 
I wouldn't use this piece of crap if you paid me. It screwed my boot partition record. If one dual boots Dos/WinNT it will kill you. If one doesn't have a floppy (as I don't cos I removed it when MS removed boot from HD in WinME) it's not repairable.

To use BootNG it takes over the boot sector requiring a NT repair to get it out. This makes the Dos Boot file a BootNG (or more accurately PreventBootNG) boot sector. I was obviously using it as a Partitioning tool (Partition Magic doesn't work on Fujitsu drives).
 
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