Partition Magic Resizing/Merging

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Hi, I am using Partition magic 8.0 with Windows XP Home Edition. My C drive that holds windows is 20 gb. I want to make it bigger but partition magic wont let me. this is how my partitions are so far:

C: 20 gb (NTFS) (primary)
D: 50 gb (FAT32) (primary)
unallocated space ~20 gb

Partition Magic allows me to make the C partition smaller, but not bigger than what it is. I also do not know the advantages of primary vs logical drives so if someone could explain that to me that would be great. How can i make the C partition bigger?

edit: also, when trying to resize, the program says "This partition crosses the 1024 cylinder boundary and may not be bootable" This may have something to do with why i cant resize
 
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i am also interested in this...is it possible to combine 2 partitions? i have a 36 gig one, and a 120 one and only 50 left one my 120, but it would be easier if i could just combine the 2 into c...
 
Hopefully someone gave you Partition Magic as a gift rather then you paying for it retail. One Linux tool known as the Gnome Partition Editor can increase or reduce the size of an existing partition as well as move it. First you would need a cd writer and the correct program to burn the GParted iso disk image onto a cd-r and make that bootable. You can download the latest version of GParted at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-livecd-0.3.1-1.iso?download

If you have a cd burner without a program to burn iso images to disk download the free version of BurnOn found at http://www.burnworld.com/burnoncddvd/
 
i tried using that program, but it wont let me make the partition bigger than it is. i even tried making another ntfs partition and merging it but it didnt work.
 
You should be able to adjust the size to some degree since you are showing some 20gb unallocated drive space. Can you move eveything onto the OS partition? If you could grab everything you want off of the Fat32 D partition that could deleted, the primary then increased to 15-20% larger, and a new NTFS storage partiton could be created. Since that would hold your files only it would be an extended type of partition seen as a logical drive.

Apparently PM is misreading the 20gb free figure or is simply not able to increase the size of an NTFS type partition while working on Fat. GPart would be the one for this. Once you save all files, delete D, and create the new D you simply right click on D in the Disk Management to see it formatted as an NTFS type which will be far better.
 
thanks guys, i got help from another forum and figured it out. redistributing free space worked.
 
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