Extending the system partition

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The Windows XP book says that the system partition cannot be extended. Is there a (safe) utility that allows this or do I have to delete and reinstall everything. My system partition is 3GB, 50% more than recommended by Microsoft, but I am continually hitting is limits

Many thanks for any hel

John S
 
Hi John

3GB for a primary XP partition isn't enough - an initial XP install can up that amount when the pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys files are taken into consideration. Where did you get your info. from? A better size is 7-10GBs. If you want to extend the primary partition, a 3rd party program, such Partition Magic, will help you:

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
 
Better than Partition Magic (which you have to pay for) is BootIT NG, which
is free. Get it from www.terabyte.com (I think that's the spelling) - you
can google for bootitng and you'll get an executable that'll make a floppy
for you that you boot from and you can resize, delete, create,
format.....anything you want with partitions. I've used it LOADS of times
and never lost any data. You should back up whatever you HAVE to have, of
course. It comes with a good readme that'll keep you from screwing
everything up. You can even back up the partition you're trying to change by
storing an image if it somewhere else on your h/disk. Then, if you have a
problem, just restore the image and you're back to where you started.
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