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How to swap my hard disk partition.
I have a 150 GB Harddisk, of which 68 GB is assigned to drive C & 80 GB is given to drive D. I would like to transfer my system files along with data on drive C to Drive D which has much more storage capacity, so that my drive C becomes drive D and vice versa. Is there a solution or do i have to reinstall my operating system again.
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If these are the only two partitions on the drive, rather than "swap" them you can do a bit a rearranging of the space and simply resize them as you desire.
First, however, 68GB is PLENTY for XP and your programs. Have you considered simply relocating "My Documents" to the D: partititon? [Right-click on My Documents; select Properties; click on Move; and select your new location (There's a "Create New Folder" button if you haven't already created a folder on D: for them)]
... I suspect that simply moving your documents folder to D: will free up plenty of space on C:
But if you still want to resize the partitions, just ask and I'll provide the details.
The basic process is (a) resize D:, (b) move D: so the free space is between C & D, and (c) resize C:
First, however, 68GB is PLENTY for XP and your programs. Have you considered simply relocating "My Documents" to the D: partititon? [Right-click on My Documents; select Properties; click on Move; and select your new location (There's a "Create New Folder" button if you haven't already created a folder on D: for them)]
... I suspect that simply moving your documents folder to D: will free up plenty of space on C:
But if you still want to resize the partitions, just ask and I'll provide the details.
The basic process is (a) resize D:, (b) move D: so the free space is between C & D, and (c) resize C:
With hard drives being so cheap today, a better solution is to buy a used 250 or 320 GB hard drive, then migrate the partitions to the new drive in whatever size configuration is desired. Then the original drive is a safe backup of the old system configuration that can be kept as long as desired to confirm that the new configuration is valid, and can later be used for backups.
I have done tasks like this in the past and I would use a program like PartionMagic (Disk partitioning software. I would first reduce the size of the D: to 68GB changing where that partions starts. Then I would expand that C: drive to include the space that is newly not allocated as a part of a partions (approximately 12GB). I would suggest that you consider getting a new harddrive since they are so cheap and use some PC cloning hardware such as Ghost to backup your current installation and restore it on the new harddrive.
http://partedmagic.com