main partition full help

[sparks000]

after struggeling to build my first pc i was a little hesitant in formating my hard drive i made the main partition only 5gb for my system and programs and now its full i have a second logical drive (i think its called) for my files thats has room on it, and i was wondering if there was any way without erasing all my data to send room from 2nd partition to my main one, or will i have to reformat everything and then reinstall? can someone please help

[ghost2003]

I think partition magic can do that

[sparks000]

thx ill give it a try...

[bailey]

welcome to pcmech:
yes I use partition magic to change my partitions around, and there is also some free download software that can do that for you too, just can't think of the name of it right now.

[ghost2003]

It would probly be a good idea to backup stuff before you do that though.

[sparks000]

well i managed to shrink the size or my logical drive but i have another free partition and cant figure out how to merge that with the primary partition any one know how to use this program

[sparks000]

and im not really worried about backing up its either school work that i dont care about or things i can redownload no major projects

[sparks000]

well i was wrong i need the full version to actually perform the operation... looks like a good program but id rather just buy a couple cd-rw and back up and full installiation any one have anyother ideas?