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Re-partitioning without losing data?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:45 am
by pdeinc

PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:13 am
by Junior_co
Hey there pdeinc...

I'll pass on the only information that I have on this... (which may be completely off base)

It is my understanding that it is impossible to repartition a drive and keep any information intact.

If you do make an attempt at this (leagl discloser: Im not suggesting that you do) than make sure you have any information backed up on an external media source prior to attempting....

I hate it when companies set up hard drives like that...

Good on ya...

Junior

PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:12 pm
by Gecko
Partition magic can change the size of the partitions without data loss on C.
As long as your D drive partition has little or no data on it there should be no data loss there also.
I would not eliminate the D partition just resize that partition to over the size of the data that is on that partition.

I have done this myself many times, for a 40 gig drive I would make the C partition 30 gigs and the D partition 10 gigs