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by technomancer 1 view

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I have a 3GB drive split into 1GB Primary and 2GB Extended partitions. I need to move the 2GB back to the primary for more space. How do I do this without reloading the entire operating system?? I know there is software that will let me do this, please tell me your favorite solutions for this.

Thanx

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by technomancer

Thanks, I'll check into getting this. I couldn't remember the name of it till I saw the URL. Been too long since I needed something like it.

by bohicam1

For the price of a 20 or 40 GB hard drive now-a-days, I suggest you buy yourself a new drive and reload your programs. I know this is not the answer you're looking for but your puter will run better with a new install and will last you quite a few more years. You can put the new drive in, reinstall everything then place the old drive in as slave to copy over any data that you may wish to keep.
Good luck!

Mike

by technomancer

If this were my personal machine or a machine that I could control, I'd do such. It belongs to the county I'm volunteering at and their IT department wouldn't upgrade this machine if you paid them to. (I know there are more things going on than that, but I'm not the only one frustrated by their slow response to things.)

by qballrail

I agree with Mr Miron. Partition Magic is really the way to go if you are on a budget and can't quite afford a new one.

by rcom

In response to answer 4 why would he need to reinstall programs. The drive and both partitions could be fully copied with the partition sizes enlarged using ghost or one of the other programs. Nothing worse that dumping a drive for no reason. This is bad advice.

by technomancer

Agreed. Thanks. I just wish I could drop in a 20GB drive or such. It'd be much easier to do that than resize the partitions.

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