[plug] Windows 2000 question - expanding partition

Richard Meyer meyerri at westnet.com.au
Thu Jun 22 23:21:08 WST 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 18:53 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Richard Meyer wrote:
> >> Does Win2k have a drive manager like WinXP ?
> > 
> > Drive manager? I've never heard of such a thing. Any details before I go
> > and Google 3,000 things that are not what you were talking about  ;-)
> >> If so use that to increase the size of your partition after you have 
> >> moved other partitions out of the way.
> > 
> > Give me a detail or two and I'll give it a serious look in the morrow,
> > please.
> 
> Do yourself a favour.. download and burn the gparted boot cd (about 34M) and let it do the dirty 
> work for you.. you can remove/resize hda2&3 and then just expand your ntfs partition to fill the gap.
> Honestly it's the dogs bollocks when doing stuff like this...
> 
> <insert usual disclaimer about making comprehensive backups here>

OK downloaded it - thanks to you and Philippe Margot for the
recommendation - of course taking advice from anyone off the internet
entitles me to claim the my money back.  ;-)

I'll give it a go over the weekend.
> 
> Brad
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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>




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