Hi

I have two partitions on primary disk with a free space between the two as
below;

| Drive C Space | Free Space | Drive E Space |

Is there anyway I can expand E drive space to include the free space without
reinstalling win xp from scratch?

Thanks

Regards

check on majorgeeks, they had a free utility that partitions without
losing data.

John wrote:

> I have two partitions on primary disk with a free space between the
> two as below;
>
>> Drive C Space | Free Space | Drive E Space |
>
> Is there anyway I can expand E drive space to include the free space
> without reinstalling win xp from scratch?


Unfortunately, no version of Windows before Vista provides any way of
changing the existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The
only way to do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic
is the best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware
alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware,
but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you
want within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself (because I've never
needed to use *any* such program), but it comes highly recommended by
several other MVPs here.

Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

I have vista on a secondary drive but it only allows to expand C drive but
not E drive for some reason.

Thanks

Regards

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> John wrote:
>
>> I have two partitions on primary disk with a free space between the
>> two as below;
>>
>>> Drive C Space | Free Space | Drive E Space |
>>
>> Is there anyway I can expand E drive space to include the free space
>> without reinstalling win xp from scratch?
>
>
> Unfortunately, no version of Windows before Vista provides any way of
> changing the existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively.
> The only way to do what you want is with third-party software. Partition
> Magic is the best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware
> alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware,
> but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you
> want within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself (because I've never
> needed to use *any* such program), but it comes highly recommended by
> several other MVPs here.
>
> Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
> beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
> wrong.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>

Besides third-party partition tools, you could consider backing up C and E
to an external hard drive, remove all partitions, create new ones, then
perform a restore for each partition.

By sure to make partition images, not a single disk image, since the latter
would preserve the free space.

"John" <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have two partitions on primary disk with a free space between the two as
> below;
>
> | Drive C Space | Free Space | Drive E Space |
>
> Is there anyway I can expand E drive space to include the free space
> without
> reinstalling win xp from scratch?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
>
>