Partition Magic (WXP-Home)

[walk12]

I was wondering if anybody has tried out Partition Magic 8.0.
I have a Sony Vaio Computer with windows XP home edition on it.
I want to make my C drive bigger and I tried to Use Partition Magic to resize my drives.
On drive C: it has 13 GB and on
drive D: it has 64 GB.
I want to make my drive C which is my primary drive bigger but when I use Partition Magic it it says it will resize the drive and it does not change anything after it reboots.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[BertImmenschuh]

You first have to make D: smaller so there is room to make C: larger. It's not a quick process.

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[walk12]

And how do you make drive D: smaller?

[BertImmenschuh]

Use Partition Magic to resize D: down to the size you want it to end up as and that will leave unallocated space on the drive that can be used to resize C: up. Be sure there's sufficient free space on D: to subtract the amount you want to add to C:. The screen that shows both partitions will have the menu/commands for doing it plus the Help file. I'll be doing the same on a Notebook tomorrow or Sunday.

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[walk12]

I dont know if there is some kind of adminstrative problem that is preventing me from resizing the drives. I'm using XP Home edition.
Whatever I do the drives stay the same.
I did notice something strange when I try and resize the C: and D: drive the
Partition Magic reports it as 14MB when it is
a (14GB drive) and my D: drive says it is a 64MB drive when it is a (64GB drive.)
Is there something I need to change?
Thanks for your help already.
Is that normal
walk12
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by walk12 on 07/17/04 07:06.</FONT></P>

[BertImmenschuh]

I'd guess you have a problematic installation of PartitionMagic. Try uninstalling it and then reboot and re-install.

If I was doing it and the above doesn't change anything, I'd try Ranish Partition Manager from http://www.v-com.com/product/System_Commander_Home.html (http://www.ranish.com/part/>http://www.ranish.com/part/</a>).

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[lisbon]

Hi, I am having the same problem, I did email to Symantec the problem, will let you know the answer