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I just use MiniTool Partition Wizard software,which is well

On Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:38 PM Jac wrote:

Has anyone used partition magic ?
I have a HD with 2 XP installation in the same drive but different
partitions. Both partitions are about 90% used. I want to know if I can
resize the smallest one, take the space from the biggest one. I don't
care if
I loose the data from hth big partition, I just don't want to format and
loose the data form the smallest partition.
Does partition magic do that ? Does anyone know about it ? I dont want to
buy and waste my money.
Thanks.


On Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:42 PM Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:38:02 -0700, Jack
wrote:



Yes, Partition Magic does that, as do a number of other programs.
Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but there are
freeware/shareware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next
Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you
should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used
it myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such program), but
it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.

Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things
*can* go wrong.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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On Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:09 PM Gordon wrote:

I can vouch for BootIT NG - it seemed to work when a version of
Partition
Magic I had (admittedly an old version) seemed to screw up the reported
sizes of the new partitions I made....


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Partion Magic can resize adjacent partitions. I have used it to do
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partitions. A short format should suffice.

One caution: XP assumes that the following files are on the C:\ =
partition, even if XP is installed on another partition. Never erase
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On Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:13 PM Gerry wrote:

Jack

More information on BootIt Next Generation
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/examples.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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