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by gmoe13

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I have been researching detail instruction on partitioning a NTFS drive. I would like to allocate more free space on the primary drives, so how would I accomplish this task.
The problem is I have several system that had company partition images created on them, and the primary drives are becoming full with programs and files which leaves no system memory accessible to run anything else.
This system tool seems a lot faster than a tool like Partition Magic. Any help on this?

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by parbo

One of the advantages of W2K is that you can mount a drive to a volume. So partition you new drive and mount it to a folder on the old drive, e.g. your software folder. Good luck. I hope this is a good solution for you.

by briantruitt

I really don't think you can partition a drive using the Computer Manager/Management tool. I think you can do some things like convert to Dynamic Disks or convert a couple of different drives to one volume, but as far as partitioning goes, on the fly, I believe you might limited to a few software packages. One being Partition Magic and another that I use is Paragon Hard Disk Manager. Paragon is a little better and faster than PM whatever number it's up to these days in my humble opinion. I'm sure everyone has their own favorite so be prepared.

by thechas

If you wish to change the partition structure on an existing drive, you have 2 options:

Use 3rd party utilities such as Partition Magic.

Start over and set the partition sizes as desired.

If the root problem is that you have multiple partitions and the users are running out of space on the C: drive, there are a couple of other options:

1. Change the location of the Page file (Virtual memory) to another drive or partition.
(I always set up systems with a separate partition for virtual memory.)

2. Move the My Documents folder to an alternate drive and set the default storage location for programs to the alternate location.

3. Set Internet Explorer to use an alternate drive for the temporary internet files.

Chas

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