Changing partition size ?

[Ben_UK]

Hello,

I have got a 300Gb SATA hard drive.

Its split into a 100Gb and 180Gb partiton.

On the 100Gb partition windows xp is installed along with all my games.

Now i want to make this 100Gb partiton bigger, but dont want to have to reinstall windows.

How can i change the partion size without formatting ? its reallly important i dont loose data on either partiton !

I would like to change it to a 150Gb and 130GB partition

Thanks

[skuzgib]

Partition magic does that IIRC

[pudds]

careful though, i used partition magic to resize my partitions and lost 160gb of data.
Recovery software got about 100gb back

[RDL]

Well Partition Magic works great, as long as your partitions are both the same file format, i.e NTFS, FAT32 etc.

[pudds]

both my partitions were ntfs, checkdisked and defragged beforehand.

[iranu]

Partition magic is the one.

Pudds - could I suggest making th c: drive windows specific and create a new partition solely for games.

[pudds]

The drive i partitioned had 2 partitions on it one for music videos and one for films, it wasn't the boot drive. It was a long time ago now that this happened.Partition magic came up with an error after resizing, found a few people with similar error but no soplutions. I use always use multiple partitions currently c:windows,drograms,e:games,f:mydocuments,g:music,h:downloads.i:swap. Probably a few more when my 750GB raid 0 array is setup.

[iranu]

Nice, that's just the way I do it.

[pudds]

im really wary of partition magic now, i lost a lot of data which i can never get again mostly bootleg videos and music. this stuff is up on bittorrent for a few weeks and then thats it.
The whole experience made me think about backing even more especially as my old 75gxp had died 2 weeks before taking loads of other data with it.
When i get my replacement motherboard back im planning on raid 0 with 3 250gb maxtor drives + backup using a 200,160 and 100gb drive setup as JBOD's.

[directhex]

boot knoppix, open a terminal, run ntfsresize

not guaranteed, of course, but cheaper than PM

[pudds]

can't find knoppix on my start menu