Resize C Drive (Partition) Without Losing Data?
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Gazette reader ‘Joanna’ writes:
Dear Dennis,
I have installed a 120 gigabyte (GB) hard drive in my computer. The 120 gigabyte drive has been split into two entities: the C drive is 15.5 GB large and contains Windows XP plus all my installed programs; the D drive is the remaining 104 GB and contains a few downloaded programs.
The problem is that my C drive is nearly full. I want to resize my C drive, but is there any way to do this without having to format my hard drive and reinstall Windows and all my programs along with it? I am on dialup Internet access and it would take weeks if I had to format my drive and then re-download everything again. Can you help?
My response:
What you are referring to is called a Partition Management Software (or otherwise known as a partition manager). In the past, there was no way to resize the geometry of your hard drive without losing any of the data stored on the drive. But a lot has changed since that time and there are now a number of third-party utilities that allow you to manipulate the size of your hard drive partitions right within the Windows Environment.
One such program is called…
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7 Comments
babu.k.r
February 5th, 2007
at 10:12pm
i have only one disk c 40gb in my computer,how can i make it in to 2 disk without reinstalling are formatting my computer please help me in this….
Nick
June 18th, 2007
at 6:22am
I have a problem. i have a lacie(250gb) external hard drive that use to work fine(plug and play). I formatted my pc yesterday and to my amazement, it’s no longer accessible. It’s being recognized by the computer in that you are seeing it in my computer but it is asking me to format. My problem is, i have a lot of stuff on my hard drive and if i format it, all my data will be lost. IS THERE A WAY TO FORMAT IT WITHOUT LOOSING MY VALUABLE DATA.?
kIND REGARDS,
Ali Kirmani
September 20th, 2007
at 1:48am
Hey nick
Connect the drive and boot with your xp cd. Boot into the recovery console and run “chkdsk /r” on the drive in question. See if you can access the drive now. Run fixboot and fixmbr on the drive as well.
Bianca
December 31st, 2007
at 3:09pm
Hey,
I have a Toshiba Ext. Hard Drive and it’s worked fine since I got it a couple months ago but today when I plugged it in it said that it hadn’t been formatted. It’s got alllll my music on it and no backups
How can I be able to access the hard drive or format it but still have all my stuff on there?
Bianca
memamine
January 23rd, 2008
at 12:01am
I have a laptop using Vista. I had to do a recovery. I had moved critical files to a WD external usb hard drive. Now my computer says I need to format it when I hook it up. I do not have cd for vista. It came on computer. There was advice given to someone earlier on this, but I don’t understand what to do. Could someone clarify? I’ve pasted the advice here. I’d really appreciate it.
Ali Kirmani - September 20, 2007 @ 1:48 am
Hey nick
Connect the drive and boot with your xp cd. Boot into the recovery console and run “chkdsk /r” on the drive in question. See if you can access the drive now. Run fixboot and fixmbr on the drive as well.
czar
March 25th, 2008
at 6:14am
I ran out of room,parti man HELP!
ashwani
July 3rd, 2008
at 8:45pm
i have 120gb harddisk icreate theb partition only one partition. i want to create the other partition without formatting the system. or without help of the other softwares.