Increase Partition w/o formatting?

That program will let you resize, create, or delete partitions without needing to reformat to delete files, although it isn't free.
 
If you don't have a copy of Partition Magic, GParted is free and can do it as well. With either program backup anything you need first because the success rate isn't 100%
 
xp/vista, and how is the partition layout now, and how do you want it to be? The built-in tools might be enough for the job
 
Thanks for the help guys! I'll check out Gparted, that sounds good, thanks Cromewell! ;)

nyhk, it isn't for me, it's for a friend, he has a 10GB partition on his HDD and he wants to make it bigger, with-out deleting what's already on it... I think in total, the HDD is 60GB, I may be wrong though.

He's on XP...
 
First any other partition existing would have to be shrunk down before the XP primary could be increased in size. Expanding an existing partition is practically instantaneous while shrinking does see a wait. The 0.3.3.0 platform independent release of GParted will see everything done once burned onto a cd-r. I used it enough here lately for even old 98 systems as well as XP and Vista.

Vista's ability to resize partitions with the Disk Management tool is for secondary partitions while Windows is running. You would need to boot with the installation disk to use the drive tool while in the repair tools section while booting from that.

GParted still remains the universal tool with the download page seen at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828 Scroll down about 15 links to get to the 0.3.3.0 and 0.3.2.0 platform independent releases there.


The documentation for reference seeing screen shots on how to use it is seen at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/generalities/gparted.htm If you got on something pm me on it. The first time simply try a practice run by pressing the enter key at each prompt to see the defaults load.
 
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