How do I re partition hard drive?

bestyman

Hi,
I have a PC downstairs thats connected to the tele, its used for films and music mainly.

When I Put a new HDD in ( about 2 years ago) I set aside 10 gig for C drive for windows and programm files and 110 gb for films and music .

Problem is somehow my C drive is full, it has windows xp, nero, office, i player, c4 on demand etc. Ive no idea why its 9 gb full, I have tried deleting unneccesary stuff . It was sp3 that tipped it over the edge so now its only 12% empty and defrag wont run .

So I need to move the partition so I have say 15gb on C drive. Whats an easy way to do this without risking losing data.

Thanks in advance

Mark

ps Or a way to lloose a few GB from C drive would do. I was thinking about unistalling some programs from C and installing on the other partition.

colin79666

you need to get yourself a program like acronis disk director. partitioning is never foolproof so it pays to backup just incase it goes wrong

surreysaver

SP3 screwed my computer up. I restored it to factory spec, and will not download SP3 now! It has now got an H drive - dunno what that is about!

colin79666

surreysaver wrote: »

SP3 screwed my computer up. I restored it to factory spec, and will not download SP3 now! It has now got an H drive - dunno what that is about!

is it an HP?

surreysaver

30111987 wrote: »

is it an HP?

No. Medion.

chris667

bestyman wrote: »

Hi,

So I need to move the partition so I have say 15gb on C drive. Whats an easy way to do this without risking losing data.

Not wishing to sound patronising, but back up before you do any of this.

Bestyman. I recommend Gparted live-CD http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php. It's open source, so won't cost you a penny. It can non-destructively resize an NTFS partition, which is what you need for Windows 2000/XP/Vista (which I assume is what you're using).

Surreysaver - have you got any external drives connected? Have you done everything listed here?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950718
Get back to us if none of this works.

mdbarber

Might just be a bit easier to try moving your my documents folder to the d: partition.
To do this right click on My Docs icon on desktop, change the c: to d: and when you click ok/apply it will ask if you want to move all the docs within.

vyseyboy

Download and run Piriform's excellent CCleaner. Check the box in advanced, so that windows update hotfix uninstallers are removed.

This will free up a good chunk of HDD space, but make sure you understand what it means first!