Hi computer experts.
Is there anyway that I can change the partitioning of my hard drive (ie less in D drive and more in C drive) without paying any money for partitioning software?
Generally it’s not a good idea to change the size of a partition incase it goes wrong, which it can.
The only software I know of that can change partition size is “Partition Magic” which I believe costs money…
yeah, you can erase everything on the hard drive and run fdisk and format the partitions.
Generally it’s best to leave partitions alone…maybe it’s time to buy a new, bigger drive if you are having problems like that. they dont’ cost much these days.
uhm yeah you can do it, but its probably not a good idea… Partition magic will do it, there must be a 30 day trial out there. But honestly, its a bad idea.
move some files around instead… thats a safe one… or buy another hard drive…
I mean by allk means if you must then do it, its not rocketscience either.
Thanks for the replies. I’ll go away and think about it.
Have moved some files. I was only reluctant to do this before for fear of forgetting where I put them. Oh well.
Yes but when you have a computer and u need computer related stuff, music, dvds and so on, there is absoulotly NO NEED TO PAY for anything. Just search for a keygen after downloading partition magic. I used that when i wanted to turn my 260GB external into like 5 differnet drives:D
Any help just let me no. But i cant and will not find you keygens/cracks. I will however answer any other computer related questions or help fix any problems:D
Unless you are a law abiding citizen and believe in compensating those musicians, movie producers, and software developers for their hard work!
Yes it can be done. But resizing partitions that have important data on them is not something that should be done without being prepared for disaster. There is always the possibility that the resizing operation could go wrong and leave your disk in a jumbled state, your data lost, and the computer unable to boot. So you need to be prepared for the unlikely event that things go wrong.
You prepare by making full backup disk images of the partitions on your disk and saving those disk images to a separate external HD or burn them to DVD. You need to use a disk imaging program that will allow you to boot from an emergency stand-alone CD that has the imaging program on it. The CD needs to be bootable because your computer will not be able to boot from the HD if the resizing goes wrong.
There are some free and trial disk imaging programs that will do that.
I use DriveImage XML. It is a freeware program. It can run from Windows and can image the system drive even while Windows is running. However, it requires that you manually create a BartPE emergency disk and manually add the DriveImage XML plugin to the BartPE image before creating the CD. It all works, and is free, but creating the BartPE emergency disk requires some geek-fu.
Another option is to use a trial version of BootIt NG or Image For Windows. They can create a disk image. They can also create an emergency recovery CD that can restore the disk images if necessary.
For resizing the partitions you can use GParted. It is free and can resize NTFS partitions. However, I have not actually tried it myself. Should work fine. Resizing documentation is for GParted is here.
Another option is to use BootIt NG. The trial version will resize the partitions. I have used this one and it works. I actually bought BootIt NG for use as my dual boot manager and my partitioning utility. Now that GParted is all packaged nicely as a Live CD I would probably go with GParted now for partition management instead of BootIT NG.
Before resizing the partitions it is a good idea to defragment both partitions first. It’s not absolutely necessary, but will make things easier on the partition resizing program because the partition resizing program will have less to do. It may also speed up the resizing operation.
Ever recorded a song of the radio?
You do realize that some cracks and keygens come with nice trojan horse programs (spyware, viruses, rootkits, complete pwnage). You take your chances when using such warez. You just might get your computer owned, and in the case of advanced rootkits you would never even know because rootkits know how to hide. How do you think the bad guys are creating such huge botnets?
If you do decide to install warez you should never use that computer for any sensitive work that involves eBay, PayPal, banking, credit card purchases, logging in to other computer systems, etc.
Only a fool would take the risk of using a crack or keygen when there are free alternatives available like GParted to do the same thing.
Or when using keygens dload them onta a crap storage device then use them the wipe the drive:D Also if you have regular backups, and have a good antivirus software you should be ok.
Oh and i forgot to mention. Dont actully download the keygens onto a comp used with credit card details. Thats why most people who do what i do actully have multiple computers:D
I don’t know why you all are talking about all this fancy hardware crap.
Just use a piece of cardboard, like I do.
To steal stuff.
Yes, I have recorded songs off the radio. Onto cassettes. Not recently. This was never considered a problem until the media was digital and the means to copy it was also digital, giving you an exact copy with no degradation. I still have the stuff I recorded off the radio over the years. Though I’ve bought many of the songs, some are obscure and I will eventually convert them into MP3s so I can get rid of all those old cassettes (about 200 of 'em). I guess you could say I’m stealing those songs, though I recorded them off the radio 20 years ago. If you’re using keygens, chances are you’re stealing software. If you don’t want to admit it, maybe you shouldn’t do it…
Partition Magic works. As already mentioned, a key thing is to back up your important data before doing this though. I’ve used it many times in the past on my Windows machines, and never lost any data. But I recently “snafu-ed” my PowerBook by playing with some utility software and not having proper backups. Correcting that situation involved formatting the whole laptop.
Hard drives are so cheap these days, you can probably get over 100GB for the price of Partition Magic. So if space is the issue, you might just want to go to a bigger HD. As a photographer, I fill them up fast. Each new camera I get eats up disk space an order of magnitude faster than the previous one!
Note: For anyone using external drives, make sure yours is formatted the same as the main machine you use it with. As a Mac user I can tell you all about the downsides of using an external FAT32 drive, for instance. Keep it matching for best convenience.
I should add that antivirus programs are notoriously poor at identifying trojan horse malware and other non-virus forms of malware. They focus primarily on viruses, worms, and infected documents. They don’t do well at identifying other forms of malware, and those that try have a high false positive rate (identifying files as infected when they are not).
So running your warez through an antivirus program, or even a couple of antivirus programs, is no guarantee that the download is clean. The black hats know how to defeat antivirus programs. It wouldn’t be too difficult for them to embed a trojan horse in a warez download and have the download pass an antivirus scan. The techniques to do so are known.
I don’t mention this for your benefit because you obviously already know all this. I mention it for the benefit of others who may take your advice that scanning a warez download with a good antivirus program will keep you safe from the nasties.
I haven’t tried or seen any of the free products.
In principle, /Noquote!! I cannot see why they should not work. /Endnoquote
I used to use Partition Magic 3 or 4 years ago and found it easy to use and dependable. It started to get a little messy when they split the product and introduced Server Magic. Still worked , but you needed then more than one product to service the estate. Nowadays when we build machines we make damn sure C: is big enough for all eventualities, educate people to put their stuff on another drive letter, and get hard drives bigger than we can conceive anyone ever needing 
. Not had to resort to Ghost or PM for a while though, so it seems the procedure is working.
One other word: backups.
Nao
Yes all you say is true. Unless your in a tight community of people who will help there own on all there “alternative pricing solutions and computer related content” needs. If you work in a particular forum/site where you no what people send you or tell you, will work and will be safe. Its like this site. People here will tell you to take your unicycle apart for certain problems. If you went into your LBS or any other place you might be more reluctant to do so. But as this advice/help is coming from people you trust and people that do it for the same reason as you, you can trust them.
I only ever save to my c:\ drive anything that I will need when my EHD isn’t plugged in. This also saves me doing a full system backup every time I want to wipe my Laptop. I love dells quick restore to factory settings. Everything turns back to when you first got it. Yes i no, my laptop was brought as one product 
not parts like computers should be brought;)
I have my 260 external HD and i split it into about 4 drives. M:/ for music S:/ for school O:\ for spare(Incise i need a drive for something) and G:\ for everything else such as videos, programs:D
OH and i agree, back up all extremely important data onto at least 2 other hard drives or flash drives. NOT 2 different drives on one HD. Also any data that would be a shame to loose but not a huge problem( such as photos) should backup to at least one other drive.
Yes, i agree I actually got a copy of partition magic from my neighbour so that saved me allot of hassle. you can buy all your computer parts from ebuyer.com This is a link to external HD’s. you can also try novatech.com This is the link for novatech’s externals. I would like to recommend 7200rpm SATA drives. Its best to get a usb compatible one as you may not have a firewire port on your pc.
Hope i have helped 
I have a laptop so not so easy to increase the internal hard drive. I have bought to external hard drives but it’s not the same. My favourite is a little 80gb portable hard drive which i sync My Docs with.
I have learnt from the experience of recently having a very unstable computer, the value of backups and the heart ache and head ache of not backing up. So I mainly use the external HDs for storage and back ups. I just can’t get into the swing of using them ‘with’ the computer.
Anyway for the moment I think that moving files is the answer. I don’t think I need to risk losing everything just to change the size of the drives at the moment.
Thanks
Cathy
I sit on my desk with my laptop and pc. I only use my laptop really. i just plug in my external when i plug in my power. Simple and easy. How many gig of space do you need. You can get decent flash drives with 4GB of space and more.
I found a tutorial for setting up DriveImage XML along with the BartPE live CD. It explains the geek-fu well.
Just including this followup for completeness.