A colleague has a PS with Win200 on he is messing with.

He has one C: ntfs partition and a second partition on the same physical disk, d: which is an ntfs partition. He wants to remove the D: partition and make the c: partition the whole size of the physical disk, not half that it already is.

How can this be done, as I assume Win2k wont let you resize an active ntfs boot partition ?? Can you boot from a floppy (Win/Partition Magic/Disksuite) and do it ?

Dave

 

You should be able to do it with Partition Magic. (You'll need v7 which has the support for 2k) Don't think there's a need to boot from floppy though cos I've done a similar thing with NT Workstation and you can do it on-the-fly ie From within the live OS!
If you don't have a copy of Partition Magic you should be able to download the trial copy from http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic and get the *cough* crack *cough* for it!

Good luck!

Nick

 

cant however do it if you are using dynamic disks..

David

 

Make sure everything is backed up, bigtime. Occasionally, things go wrong and then the machine won't boot!

Dynamic disks - now there's a pain! Just tried to install XP onto a second partition on a dynamic disk and it won't have it!! Says its not a valid partition, despite the fact that Win2k is using it quite happily.

 

Dont speak to me about dynamic disks!!!

Fecking things are a total nightmare!!!

 

You can do it with PM7. I've just done exactly that