I have one drive divided up into a C and a D partition.  I want to make C bigger, but I don't want to have to reformat the whole drive.  Aside from paying $70 for Partition Magic, is there a safe free (or cheaper) program out there that can edit partitions without reformatting?

I kinda did the same thing yesterday...but I had to delete partitions, and I just used the windows install disc.  

I'm no help.

I believe I read that a linux program called "Gparted" could do it. So if you had a live CD with it it may help.

It'll handle NTFS Windows partitions okay?  I obviously want something reliable...

While you ALWAYS want to backup when doing somthing of this nature yes it does support it. But the quick read I just did said that you can shrink a partition fine but you can only enlarge them forward. So if you want to increase a second partion on a disk into newly freed space before the partion, it needs to be copied over to another disk delete the original and then copy the copy back!

I suppose there are some Linux Live CDs that would work alright, but I think PartitionMagic would be your best bet... you can get it cheap on ebay.

At the time of this post, here's a copy for about $5.00 - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320007563381

Am I going to be able to use those copies past 30 days?

I'm wary of buying any kind of software on Ebay.

...well i'm not.  If you look at the feedback for the item i mentioned, you'll see the seller just sold a copy of Norton Ghost and recieved a positive rating.

Alright.  Thanks.

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