Can i re-partition without losing data?

[acqbonehead]

Someone told me that I could use the disk administrator in W2K and re-partition the disk without losing any data or my boot partition. Is this true?

[acqbonehead]

I should of mention that he say i could use the the free space on the c drive and re-partition it without losing anything.

[NDC]

As far as I know, that's not possible with Win2k disk tools itself. You will need a 3rd party utility such as Partition Magic to resize partitions without losing data. Disk Manager is much like DOS-FDISK. The only difference is that it has a GUI, not that un-friendly DOS screen...

[Trey]

I used Partition magic for this about 2 weeks ago and it worked fine. I moved about 10GB of free space from one partition to another. Took a long **** time though.

[vintron]

Partition Mgic 6 works good... and as someone already mentioned, it takes A LOT of time. (atleast on a 60gb 7200rpm ata100!!!)

Be careful of one thing, make sure that there are ABSOLUTELY no trouble with the file system or partition table (already existing ones), or else u will be left with an error message and a totally messed up drive (belive me ... that, i know!)

[acqbonehead]

Thank you for confirming my doubts, this could have been a disaster.

[socalgal]

Edited topic title; "with" changed to "without".

[BBA]

I should of mention that he say i could use the the free space on the c drive and re-partition it without losing anything.


Yes...you can do whatever you want with free space on a drive and not loose any data.

If you wanted to expand an existing partition...that is the part you need a utility to do, and Partition magic ( Ver 5 and up ) is the one to use.

[NDC]

I think he's refering to free space on the partition that the OS is on (a hard disk with a single partition). So if he was to try to expand it, he'd lose the OS...

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 05-28-2001).]

[By-tor & the Snow Dog]

So, you CAN (?) use partition magic, system commander, etc. to "add" a partition without loosing data (OS, etc.)

i have one partition. I would like to make another partition to store drivers, etc. So if I need to reformat etc, C: drive I can do so without loosing the data saved on D:.

So, can I do this without loosing data on C:?

Thanks.

By-Tor

[By-tor & the Snow Dog]

Tried Partition Magic.

No Problems what-so-ever!

Fastest and easiest thing I've ever done to my computer!

Used Norton disk doctor and speed disk first, could've used scan disk and the defrag), then just went to partition magic. Clicked on wizards, selected add a partition (I think) and that was that.

Nothing lost, I whole-heartedly recommend using this!

By-Tor

[By-tor & the Snow Dog]

ACQBONEHEAD, drop me an e-mail when you get a chance, okay?

By-Tor & the Snow Dog

InTheEnd@bellsouth.net

By-Tor

[BBA]

You can 'ADD' a partition without needing PM.

Disk Administrator is there just for that...with the advantage of no reboot is needed between making partitions and formatting them.

[acqbonehead]

I may have confused the situation a little so here is the full version. I have a 18g HDD which came already partitioned and W2K installed. The partition includes the whole drive. although i knew about PM and others, a friend told me that i can create an extened partition on this drive using the Disk Admin without losing my primary, OS or any other data. I hope this helps.

[NDC]

I have a 18g HDD which came already partitioned and W2K installed. The partition includes the whole drive.

Welp, you need Partition Magic then...