How do I increase Partition size ?

Hi,

I have hard disk with 3 Partions C, D & E.

C has Win XP, D has win 7 & D is data.

I need to increase the size of D ( Win 7 Partition )

C has 10 GB available space & E has 13 GB available.

I woould like to use space from C & Reinstall Win 7 in D.

What is the best & fastest way ? I have Norton Partit Magic software & Paragon Partition Manager too but I like Norton. It is esier it seems.

Last time I tried to take space from E, it took forever.

Should I Format Win 7 Partition & make it Blank first & then take space from C ?

OR there is a better way ? I do want Reinstall Win 7 anyway.

Thanks

 

Data on a computer hard drive "fills up" the drive from the left side of any partitions on the drive, so if you wish to move a partition on the drive "left", all the data in that partition has to be moved bit by bit (literally). This increases the chances of error exponentially.

So what I recommend is this:
1. Wipe Windows 7 and it's partition
2. Restart into XP and shrink the XP partition and format the unallocated space as a new partition
3. Copy the contents of E:\ to D:\ and then extend D:\, then copy them back to E:\
4. Reinstall windows 7

 

Sounds good but E has 200 GB dta so how about this :

I have cloned this disk.

Now just wipe the whole disk & make the partitions as I want & Re Install both XP & Win 7 & then copy the data from cloned disk to new E partition.

Please comment.
Thanks

 

I would just buy a new HDD, another 250GB+ wouldn't hurt at all and then you could install W7 all on its own if you wish, why waste your time squeezing a few extra GBs from one area to another on an already overfull drive which has less than %10 free space. They are very inexpensive these days and drives fill up surprisingly fast!