The Flying Cow
04-06-2009, 07:38 PM
I recently formatted my friend's lappie (yesterday night, to be precise) and did so on a ridiculously small partition (1,85GB) in order to keep her material on the other two partitions.
However, 1.85 is too tight and I want to make it bigger.
I grabbed Norton PartitionMagic (the small 8MB version) and tried to use it to no avail - the program was only useful to convert the remaining partitions from FAT32 to NTFS, but didn't do anything AFA resizing the main one is concerned.
Tired of it, I grabbed O&O PartitionManager, and tried to do this action but apparently this software doesn't support it. It says it can extend and resize partitions but it won't allow me to use up the 2.59GB of free space I cropped off of another partition for it (meanwhile I made these 2.59GB into another partition, NTFS, to see if that would change things but nada).
Thus I find myself stuck. No, I will not format the whole thing again seeing as that option is not available, and am wondering which program will allow me to advance with my aforementioned venture (merging of 2.59+1.85 so the Windaes partition is sufficiently big to not be a pain in the rear with the whole "insufficient space" bollocks).
Any help appreciated.
TFC.
However, 1.85 is too tight and I want to make it bigger.
I grabbed Norton PartitionMagic (the small 8MB version) and tried to use it to no avail - the program was only useful to convert the remaining partitions from FAT32 to NTFS, but didn't do anything AFA resizing the main one is concerned.
Tired of it, I grabbed O&O PartitionManager, and tried to do this action but apparently this software doesn't support it. It says it can extend and resize partitions but it won't allow me to use up the 2.59GB of free space I cropped off of another partition for it (meanwhile I made these 2.59GB into another partition, NTFS, to see if that would change things but nada).
Thus I find myself stuck. No, I will not format the whole thing again seeing as that option is not available, and am wondering which program will allow me to advance with my aforementioned venture (merging of 2.59+1.85 so the Windaes partition is sufficiently big to not be a pain in the rear with the whole "insufficient space" bollocks).
Any help appreciated.
TFC.