I didn't pay attention to the original thread, but I have had very good
results with Partition Magic regarding resizing partitions in NTFS.

Just my opinion, for all it's worth... good luck!

Dean Kiley

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Glazier
>
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Partition Managers
>
> From: "Hugh"
> > I've heard good things about Ranish partition manager,
> > but have never used it.
> > http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ranish.html
>
> Question was:
> >> Can anyone recommend a way to resize an existing NTFS partition on a
> SATA
> >> drive without destroying the data?  Cheaper options are preferred.
>
> This has never supported NTFS, and on other file systems it will
> not move data if the data is "in the way"... (Since data is "~always~"
> in the way, it can't "generally" re-size the way you want unless
> you can move the data "out of the way" yourself (somehow).
> What the above means is that if there is data at the end of a disk,
> the partition can NOT be made smaller because the data is "in the way"...
>
> Their is a long and drawn-out "workaround" of doing a little at a time
> by doing a juggling act, but unless conditions are right for that it
> will not work either...
>
>                               Rick Glazier

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