PM has never failed me yet, and should do a great job of this.  My general 
approach would be to shrink E and F as small as they'll go, which will make 
moving them pretty fast, and then expand each partition to its final size in 
the correct place.

David Gillett


On 13 Sep 2006 at 17:50, Jeff Long wrote:

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> I built a computer several years ago with lots of advice from both lists.
> It is still running well.  It has an Asus board, P4 2.4 processor, 512 mb
> Kingston RAM, 80 gig WD hard drive running Windows 2000 pro with all updates
> as of this morning.  
> 
> The drive is partitioned into C for the operating system, E for programs and
> F for data.  It is part of a 4 machine peer to peer network.  I made the
> mistake of partitioning C to only 5 gb of which 4+ gb on that partition is
> used.  Only 7 gb of space is used on the whole drive, so I have lots of room
> in the other partitions.
> 
> What are suggestions to re-size the partitions?  I've read about Partition
> Magic but do not have it nor have I ever used it.  If it is the safest and
> fasted way to re-size, I would gladly buy it.
> 
> Thanks to all for any tips.
> 
> Jeff Long
> Branson, MO
> 
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