Resize Win XP Partitions without losing data. Can I get some advice?
 

Hey there, folks. I'm hoping I can get some of your expertise to help me understand how to fix a disk space problem I am having. When the Missus installed Windows XP on this computer, she put it on an 8 Gb partition (the H: Drive), and then put the balance of the 250gb drive on another partition (the C: Drive). She and my daughters have installed everything they use onto the H Drive, with the effect that I am getting consistent low space errors.

The Physical Drive is a Samsung SP2504C, which is a Spinpoint P120 SATA disk with 250GB total space.

Both partitions are NTFS, with the H: Drive the Boot Partition, and C: apparently the system partition (I have no idea what sort of cockamamie scheme she had with this install.).

What I would like to do is take some unused space from the C Drive (which has 174GB free) and expand the H: drive to about 40 Gb.

I am looking for a free (whether freeware or native utilities) way to do this that ideally involves the lowest risk of data loss, and the fewest possible steps.

Can y'all give me a hand, please? Or at least point me to TFM, as it were.

Many thanks.

partition magic. it will take some time to do, but should end up with the desired results.

Unfortunately, that fails the Free test.

not if you are a pirate. arr!

You could try Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 Express or Easeus Partition Master although I've had mixed success with both.

I just dled Easeus. I think i am going to give that a try. Anything I should be on the lookout for with it?

As always, take a backup before regardless of what application you use.

Post back your results as it might help others (like me :-)

Yours
Zweiblumen

+1 to backing up. You should never do any HD/partition work without a good working backup solution. Be prepared to lose it all in a second's notice.