Changing a hard disk partition size

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My vaio notebook came with a 60Gb drive which only recently I learned came
with 2 partitions C: & D:. Partition D: has 37Gb and is empty and I wish to
extend C: to include this capacity or have the My Documents (data) moved to
D: so all my added data is moved to this partition. how can I do this?
 
PEDRO said:
My vaio notebook came with a 60Gb drive which only recently I
learned came with 2 partitions C: & D:. Partition D: has 37Gb and
is empty and I wish to extend C: to include this capacity or have
the My Documents (data) moved to D: so all my added data is moved
to this partition. how can I do this?
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Right-Click on the "My Documents" folder on the desktop.
Choose "Properties".
Look under the "Target" tab.
 
PEDRO said:
My vaio notebook came with a 60Gb drive which only recently I learned
came with 2 partitions C: & D:. Partition D: has 37Gb and is empty
and I wish to extend C: to include this capacity
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Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to
do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the
best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One
such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a
free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30
days. I haven't used it myself, but it comes highly recommended by several
other MVPs here.

Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.

or have the My
Documents (data) moved to D: so all my added data is moved to this
partition. how can I do this?
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However you can do this easily. One way is using TweakUI, at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
 
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