extending a partition

Penguin man · 9 Jun 2007 at 20:16

the recovery disk for my laptop has provided a 10gb/10gb split on the hdd, i hve upraded the hdd to a 160gb and the recovery disks have given c drive 10gb and d drive 150gb.

Can anyone advise on increasing the c drive to a more reasonable size please

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cavemanoc · 10 Jun 2007 at 10:07

If you're running XP then 10Gb is more than enough for the windows partition - I'd leave it at that and do ALL installs to the D: (Helps with fragmentation as Windows is 'kin messy. However - Acronis is very good at partition management - couple of other programmes out there too (Partition Magic still around?)

Penguin man · 10 Jun 2007 at 18:24

Thanks i hadn't remembered partitionmmagic

bledd · 10 Jun 2007 at 18:37

partition magic can often lead to nightmare situtations, i'd def use acronis disk director's live cd

JimmyEatWorms · 11 Jun 2007 at 14:44

I've been using various incarnations of Partition Magic for going on 10 years and haven't had a problem with it yet.

bledd · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:18

neither have i, but i've read a lot of threads on here with people who've really been screwed by it!

Nefarious · 12 Jun 2007 at 09:45

Windows also has its own inbuilt software for this.

It's command line but works fine - I believe the command is diskpart