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Last answer on Sep 14, 2009 6:41:47 am BST dreamwave, on Sep 29, 2008 1:34:55 pm BST 
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buddies i have actually a 320gb hard disk and windows xp installed i wanted to know if its possible to partition the hard disk without having to format it?

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John Doe, on Sep 29, 2008 2:55:03 pm BST
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1. remove as much extra data as possible (especially the large files)

2. defragment the drive

3. use the software below

http://www.btmon.com/...

   
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zorkel, on Sep 29, 2008 2:59:00 pm BST
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You could use hirens 9.5 boot disk, then run partition magic, with this program you can resize your disk, make a new partition, etc.

   
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Beasy, on Jul 3, 2009 9:20:53 pm BST
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All you need to do is follow this: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/...

   
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liujing1988, on Jul 22, 2009 8:38:39 am BST
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Hey guys! I’ve found a free 64 bit Windows partition manager by accident. I downloaded it and used it. This software was amazing and easy to use. The most important is that it is free here I would like to share it with you. Following are copied from the website:

Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager designed by MT Solution Ltd. It supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful but free partition manager to manage their hard disk partition such as Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition and Partition Recovery.

Partition Wizard comes absolutely free for Home user and free of charge for business user. Home users, business users, system administrators can easily use this Windows based software to manage their disk partitions. Download it for free from http://www.PartitionWizard.com and enjoy the new technology and new experience of Partition Wizard.

More information at http://www.partitionwizard.com

   
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Abhishek, on Aug 7, 2009 1:40:28 pm BST
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Tried and tested partition wizard as suggested in the above reply and....it works fine.

   
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 John C, on Aug 25, 2009 9:48:10 am BST

Is the disk a single partition with xp installed? If so, here is a tutorial to resize partition and keep system untouched http://www.geeksdo.com/shrink-c-create-partition.html

   
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