Hard drive partition

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kerk

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Hi, I have a problem with my laptop hard drive. I have a laptop running XP with a 40gb hard drive. It has 2 partitions, 10gb (FAT32) and 30gb(NTFS). The operating system is in the 10gb partition and I am running out of space in it. I have plenty of space on the 30gb partition. When I install programs, I install them on the 30gb partition to save space but I am going to have to do something quickly. I have less than 500mb left. So the question is, how can I shift some space from one partition to the other without wiping the whole drive and reinstalling the OS. I can back up the 30gb pretty easily if I need to. Any ideas?

oh, yeah. before you ask. I used FAT32 and NTFS because the XP install cd would not install on a NTFS partition for some odd reason. I tried many, times.
 
You need a bootable diskette (or CD) with a partitioning tool. I think you can find those bootable disks on the internet (you could try on www.bootdisk.com). Set there how you want, and then it's recommended to reinstall windows, and format the C: drive before using the partitioning tools.
 
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