Now that I've got your attention ... 
I was reading Dr. Emilio Bombay's online column today and ran across an article where someone asked about combining / resizing partitions in Windows. This is an excerpt from his response:
My question is, what is he talking about? I've never seen anything built into Windows by which I can resize a partition without destroying existing data. Have I missed something?
Thanks
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Oops, like a newbie I forgot to include my system specs:
120GB SATA hard drive partitioned as C: = 20GB; D: = remainder
Intel P4 2.8 gHz
256 MB RAM
Windows XP Home Edition
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I was reading Dr. Emilio Bombay's online column today and ran across an article where someone asked about combining / resizing partitions in Windows. This is an excerpt from his response:
Yes, he's a smart-aleck (cleaned up for our younger participants) and that's generally why I read his column. It's often funny.Now go buy a copy of Partition Magic (www.symantec.com/partitionmagic/), which will make combining those two chunks of your hard drive a breeze. And to all you geeks out there who are just about to fire off snarky e-mails about how even a trained pig knows there are disk-management tools in Windows that allow you to monkey with partition size: Just shut up. This poor schlub would wind up killing all his programs and data. Partition Magic is about all he can handle. Me, too, for that matter.
My question is, what is he talking about? I've never seen anything built into Windows by which I can resize a partition without destroying existing data. Have I missed something?
Thanks
[Edit]
Oops, like a newbie I forgot to include my system specs:
120GB SATA hard drive partitioned as C: = 20GB; D: = remainder
Intel P4 2.8 gHz
256 MB RAM
Windows XP Home Edition
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