HDD Issues

[adslxs38]

Hi

I made a partition on my primary drive which is 15g for the OS but i now need to make it bigger. There is still space left on the 2nd partition but i was wondering if there is some way to allocate that free space on the 2nd partition to the 1st partition without having to format and start again?

cheers

 

[PC eye]

You wouldn't allocate free space from one partition to another but use a drive partitioning tool for seeing the second partition reduced in size in order to expand the OS primary. Programs like Partition Magic or the free Linux drive tool GParted are commonly used for resizing partitions as well as either deletion or creation of new ones.

Certain releases of GParted are platform independent capable of creating new Fat as well as NTFS MS type primary and extended partitions. The main download page for the free Gnome Partition Editor(the full name) is seen at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828 The 0.3.3.0 release is platform independent and has seen use here for some time as a reliable tool.

The instructions for use once you burn the small 35mb ISO type disk image onto a cd-r including screenshots is seen at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/generalities/gparted.htm If you don't a program that burn iso images the free version of StarBurn works quite well for this. http://www.rocketdivision.com/download_starburn.html