resizing partions without losing data?

[frogact]

Someone recommended partition magic to me but I see Norton doesnt offer it anymore. Is there anything else?

[Sy_Accursed]

Windows disc manager?

[frogact]

Windows disc manager?

Will that protect the data? I have xp. I thought I'd have to do a new install to repartition in windows.

[Sy_Accursed]

I'm not sure how u do it in xp, but in all windows as long as the empty space is after the partition u want to expand u can do it fine.

 

I recently used a tool to shift my laptop about cant remeber wat thou.

[n00bfiterpk6]

I recently cloned my harddrive and while reading about this i read that there is partition editing software which can just change the size of your partions. Something like PartionMagic does it. there was a free one too which i think i downloaded but never ended up trying, ill find out what that was called

 

edit: oh lol, didnt really read your post... and yea norton doesnt offer it but you can still download it from other sites,\

 

edit again: something like this might be alright. http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

 

edit once more: partion logic seems to be crap based on reviews on the internet, this http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page however seems to be good.

 

 

edit for the last time (promise): http://www.soft32.com/Download/free-trial/Partition_Magic/4-151-1.html this is wher i downloaded partionmagic i believe

[frogact]

Thanks...I think partition magic is what I need..I'll try that site.

 

ONe of the partitions is running Ubuntu..I think I could boot that one and do it from there..but I'm just not sure how to or if the data will be lost or not.

 

Paw..that is the problem. There is data on all the partions and I made one way too small.

[Sbrideau]

Win key + R -> diskmgmt.msc -> rightclick

 

There, you should have the option to do what you want.

[ClareJonsson]

Windows vista onwards has disk resizing on the fly built in to the drive manager. Windows XP doesn't. We use Power Quest's Partition Magic to resize XP partitions.

[The Runar]

Myself I use GParted (included on Ubuntu LiveCD). Good and free.

[Sbrideau]

Windows vista onwards has disk resizing on the fly built in to the drive manager. Windows XP doesn't. We use Power Quest's Partition Magic to resize XP partitions.

Right, I forgot they were grayed out in Window's XP's disk manager.

[ClareJonsson]

Windows vista onwards has disk resizing on the fly built in to the drive manager. Windows XP doesn't. We use Power Quest's Partition Magic to resize XP partitions.

Right, I forgot they were grayed out in Window's XP's disk manager.

Actually XP doesn't support Shrinking or extending partitions on the fly and the options aren't even there.