Move a windows partition to another drive and rename that as C:

[edison]

I have an 80GB HDD with 4 partitions each of 25,25,15,and 15Gb respectively. I have installed Windows on C: that has a 25GB partition.I wish to move that to another partition with 15Gb and rename that as C (that is, the primary partition).I wish to do this so that I can save space for Data.Is there any way I can MOVE this without doing a format and reinstall of Windows. Please send in your suggestions.

Thanks.

[Dark Nova]

ive never done that, but im pretty sure you need to reinstall.

nm, you definatly need to reinstall.

[ffreeloader]

I have an 80GB HDD with 4 partitions each of 25,25,15,and 15Gb respectively. I have installed Windows on C: that has a 25GB partition.I wish to move that to another partition with 15Gb and rename that as C (that is, the primary partition).I wish to do this so that I can save space for Data.Is there any way I can MOVE this without doing a format and reinstall of Windows. Please send in your suggestions.

I know of no utilities that will allow you to move a system partition under windows. There is something in Linux to do this with but even then it's problematic to use with the / (root) partition, which is basically about the same thing as the system partition in Windows.

It's time to bite the bullet and do the hard work. Just plan more carefully next time.

[RJ]

You cannot move a windows system partition, but you can resize the current one. You need a program like partition magic for that.

RJ