Carl Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a related question but (I think) not the same one. I'm > new to Windows (well, using it again for the first time after > 16 years as a Mac and Unix geek). I have a Windows XP system > that I want to swap disks in. My one odd requirement is I want > to swap in a _smaller_ disk. (It's only using about 12GB of disk, > and will never, ever need more than 2x that; I have a spare 40GB > drive and a useful place to put the 250GB drive that's in the > XP machine.) Windows users I've spoken too seem to think doing > this would require either black magic or some commercial software. > Is this really that hard?
Partition Magic is the cannonical program for doing this kind of thing, and it will do what you want, but it's a commerical program. It normally costs $60, but there are vendors on Amazon that seem to sell it for $16. There are freeware programs that claim to do the same thing. I haven't used any of them, but Google turned up Ntfsresize, which claims to be solid: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html Here's a list of some more: http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/partitioneditors.shtml |>oug P.S. I hate Windows. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
