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Comment from GeneralJenkins on 2012-01-09

2012-01-09T15:08:29Z

I just want to say i read this article and downloaded the free program partitionwizard in one of the above comments and it wouldnt work, said it was overlapping and there was a bug, then i downloaded EaseUS and it worked fine. They were very similar, so they both will probably work. Saved all my data, made the c drive larger and the d drive smaller and only took maybe 10 minutes, including downloading the program and all! Thanks for the help guys.

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Comment from Jay on 2011-09-01

2011-09-01T16:25:22Z

Easeus saved our day. We paid out for Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 Suite, and wasted 5 hours trying to install it only for it to say 'corrupted download' each time. In fact, it was the software at the end of their emailed link which was flakey, and so in the 6th hour we downloaded from a different part of their site - which installed fine.
However... I personally found the software underwhelming.
All we wanted to do was make a C: drive partition bigger, and the D: drive partition smaller. To begin with, the HDM prog seemed cute and easy to use. Then we realised that in fact it was maybe more a case of cute graphics covering a confusing, counter-intuitive app.
There seemed to be no way to simply shrink D, resize C - and when we exited the Wizard, we were confronted with lots of jargon and messages saying more or less 'not possible - period' but with no clear explanation why. In short, a badly designed app especially given home users are meant to be able to use it.
After reading this forum (thanks!) I hesitantly tried the free app from EASEUS - thank you, thank you, thank you - within seconds (literally) of downloading the app, I worked out how to grab hold of one side of the D graphic and shrunk it, grabbed hold of one side of the C graphic and enlarged it, said Apply and...
.. I now have a perfect machine, with no space problem.
If there was some way to get my USD50 back from Paragon and donate it to the EASEUS guys, I would.
The moral of the story - don't be fooled by international offices and fancy websites!

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Comment from Orange Helsfield on 2011-02-23

2011-02-24T02:11:19Z

I have the exact same problem. I feel like the simplest thing would be for more things to be saved on the D drive, but it seems impossible?

It's certainly possible, but typically it means you need to tell each program you use to start saving to a location you specify on D: rather than C:.

24-Feb-2011

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Comment from from Tokyo on 2011-01-06

2011-01-06T12:22:06Z

I used a program which is free for personal use: http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
I used it to move partitions and to resize a partition. It worked perfectly and the user interface is very intuitive.

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Comment from Matthew on 2010-09-05

2010-09-05T14:28:55Z

sounds a great idea. i might try it. my problem was... oh it's a loooooooooooooong story. anyway i will try it.

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Comment from shiny on 2010-06-25

2010-06-25T07:01:15Z

hi, you need to shrink the space from D partition to C partition, it is so easy with partition saaistant.

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Comment from Jolly on 2010-06-10

2010-06-10T10:01:10Z

Followed zac123's advice and downloaded EASEUS Partition Manager and followed Tracy's instructions for it and it worked perfectly. I took 25GB from the D drive and added it to the C drive. This is a problem that has been causing problems with my computer for more than 2 years. Now all is good. The process took more than an hour but everything worked like it was suppose to. I haven't seen my computer run this fast since I bought it.

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Comment from Carl Redding on 2010-05-22

2010-05-22T14:31:59Z

try this site for a free trial of partition magic http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

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Comment from JPEG on 2010-05-20

2010-05-21T00:51:07Z

zac123, i used that to partition and put windows 7 on my PC. It works wonderfully.

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Comment from Tracy on 2009-08-09

2009-08-10T02:31:13Z

Yes, as zac123 just mentioned: go to download.com and get "EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition". It's free. I just did it about an hour ago, for the same problem; it was the way my daughter's Acer computer came, with 70GB split evenly between C and D drives. C was full, D was empty. What you have to do is: use the slider to make the D smaller. It puts the chunk of free space after D. then move the D space to the end, so the free space is between C and D. Then increase the C space and it'll take that empty chunk. Sorry if that sounds confusing but when you see the utility you'll understand.. Believe me, it was soooo easy. !! (whew! I'll tell ya, I was so scared!)

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Comment from kerin on 2009-07-29

2009-07-30T02:38:04Z

my laptop runs vista and i forgot the password i don't have the vista cd so i am re-formating the hard drive with my xp cd but there are 3 partition can i delete 2 of them

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Comment from zac123 on 2009-04-09

2009-04-09T11:26:11Z

http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Partition-Manager/3000-2248_4-10863346.html?tag=mncol

its good and its free

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Comment from mohammed on 2009-01-23

2009-01-23T08:30:07Z

I have c drive.I want two partition without format

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Comment from Andrew on 2008-08-22

2008-08-22T16:01:48Z

all i do is pop in my boot disk and it goes to a page where i can manage my drives and when i first got my computer and i had 2 partitions and when i deleted one of them on the page i was talking about, the space from the one i deleted was automatically added to the other partition. i have tried this both with a vista boot disk, and an xp boot disk. i hope this helps!

Andrew

if you have any questions about this you can always e-mail me at [email address removed].

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Comment from Mike on 2008-08-06

2008-08-06T18:14:34Z

Again i have partition magic 8pro but cannot start the install because i have no room on the e:drive(this is my boot drive) but 25g on the c: drive. i wish to move my partition. can i re-write the program(pm8p) to extract into c: ?

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Comment from Tom Webaster on 2007-08-22

2007-08-23T00:46:41Z

Is there any other way to change the size of a partition coz.. mines absolutley full
i dont want to have to back stuff up either i just want a bigger c drive

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-06-03

2007-06-03T20:50:00Z

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Comment from Ranjeet on 2007-06-03

2007-06-03T19:22:02Z

I have only 1 partition in my laptop c:
how can I divide into various partitions.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-01-04

2007-01-04T20:58:19Z

Neither. You need to use a partition resizing program.

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Comment from Sam Ensor on 2007-01-04

2007-01-04T20:46:26Z

If I delete the empty and unused "d" partition, will the "C" drive automatically absorb the free disk space, or will the WinXP program ASK me if I want the "C" drive size increased?

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Comment from Me on 2006-11-24

2006-11-24T08:30:13Z

There are partition products that have free trials :) And if you will only use it once every couple years....then stick to the free trials...It's free and works great!

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Comment from Michael Horowitz on 2006-11-18

2006-11-18T19:18:35Z

I have used Partition Magic for a long time across many releases. However, since the vendor (PowerQuest) was purchased by Symantec, the product seems to have been abandoned. There have been no updates for a very long time. And its not problem-free (not that any software is). See
http://www.computergripes.com/PartitionMagic.html

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-11-18

2006-11-18T16:45:52Z

I believe that's a destructive resize. Meaning that the data on the partitions is lost. These utilities do it while preserving your data.

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Comment from David on 2006-11-17

2006-11-18T07:00:09Z

if memory serves, isn't there a way to change partition sizes in the "disk management" under the "computer management" in the administrative tools?? I could swear I've done that before, if not, nevermind...lol

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Comment from Greg Bulmash on 2006-11-15

2006-11-16T04:05:09Z

Though pricy, I'd definitely recomment Partition Magic. It's done the job for me.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-11-15

2006-11-15T17:13:18Z

That works if you don't mind losing any data on that second partition.

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Comment from Chris Spencer on 2006-11-15

2006-11-15T12:48:42Z

I would suggest simply deleting the second partition and increasing the size of the first into the new space.

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