Change Partitions on Active Drive

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My PC was delivered with the active drive partitioned into two partitions of 60GB. I want to change that toi one partition of 120 but no matterhow i do it i dont seem to be able to enlarge the active partition. I can delete the secondary partition but because windows resides on the first it says its in use and wont let me change it. I even tried re-installing windows and the temporary files were stored there.
 
Check out www.powerquest.com, (recently aquired by Symantec). Partition
Magic 8.0 will allow you to merge/resize
partitions. It's a fantastic program
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Curt

Tony said:
My PC was delivered with the active drive partitioned into two partitions
of 60GB. I want to change that toi one partition of 120 but no matterhow i
do it i dont seem to be able to enlarge the active partition. I can delete
the secondary partition but because windows resides on the first it says its
in use and wont let me change it. I even tried re-installing windows and the
temporary files were stored there.
 
Hi,

You need a third party partitioning utility to dynamically resize the
existing partitions. The drive tools included with Windows cannot perform
this function without destroying what is already there.

Partitioning programs:

BootIT NG www.terabyteunlimited.com
Partition Magic www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic
Partition Commander http://www.v-com.com/product/pc_ind.html
Ranish Partition Manager http://www.ranish.com/part/

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



Tony said:
My PC was delivered with the active drive partitioned into two partitions
of 60GB. I want to change that toi one partition of 120 but no matterhow i
do it i dont seem to be able to enlarge the active partition. I can delete
the secondary partition but because windows resides on the first it says its
in use and wont let me change it. I even tried re-installing windows and the
temporary files were stored there.
 
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