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by sudharsaninsu

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I have a 20gb hard drive. C drive is 1gb and D drive is 2gb. I have windows installed in C drive. Now the drive has only 120MB of free space whereas my d drive has 1.5gb. I wish to increase the size of my C drive to 2gb fron 1gb and reduce the size of my d drive to 1 gb from 2 gb.

How to do this without losing any data or resorting to the reinstallation of windows and other application files.

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by pgcarter

Yes, Partition Magic is the way to go. There is also a utilities that comes with Norton ghost called gdisk that I believe can do it, those are the only two that I know of assuming win9x

by dlw6

I concur with PCGold -- Partition Magic is a good program. However, ensure that you make regular backups, for the following reason.

I had Partition Magic on my Win95 system and was using the first physical partition on the second physical drive to store my important files. I assumed that, even if there was a failure of some sort, the first partition would be readable.

That turned out not to be true. When I had a crash and reinstalled Win95, the second physical drive was totally unreadable. Neither Partition Magic nor Norton Utilities could find the partition information on that drive. I lost several months' worth of work. I don't know why it happened, but I think that the Win95 reinstall somehow corrupted the partition information.

Don't let this steer you away from the program, because I haven't personally seen anything better, and the current version is probably improved over the one I have anyhow. I just wanted to add a brief warning. We should all be doing our backups anyway, right?

Good fortune,
Don

by philthegreat

Though using Partition Magic is OK; but I recommend a counter practice.

Make more memory from C: and store all the data and extra programs on D:

If you increase the size of C: then it will make your programs work slower because they have to control a larger disk.
Besides, the frequent accessed data will cause slow responses only if you make defragment always.
So if you put all the accessed data on D: and some programs on D: then as a whole you don't need to take the risk on the failure of the Partition Magic and ensure fast computer responses.

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