Mobile partition on another drive

Using Windows XP pro with SP3.

I have more than one partition on my hard drive, one designated C, which contains the operating system, is now fairly complete. I just bought a new hard drive and I intend to transfer data on a couple of new hard disk partitions and use free space to increase the size of C. Is this possible with disk management so that the scores moved to the new drive will keep the same drive letter and will be available as they are right now?

Grateful for the advice.

Using Windows XP pro with SP3.

I have more than one partition on my hard drive, one designated C, which contains the operating system, is now fairly complete. I just bought a new hard drive and I intend to transfer data on a couple of new hard disk partitions and use free space to increase the size of C. Is this possible with disk management so that the scores moved to the new drive will keep the same drive letter and will be available as they are right now?

Grateful for the advice.

You have a number of issues packed in "is this possible with disk management."  Basically, the answer is no.  Although you can create and delete partitions with disk management, the only tool that is native to Windows XP that extends a partition is diskpart.exe .  Unfortunately, diskpart is limited to data volumes.  This means that you can not use it to extend the system volume or boot (e.g., C).

Use a third-party disk partitioning application.

Three well-known products are Free of Easeus Partition Manager ,Acronis Disk Director andParagon Partition Manager .

Your goal with one of the 3 above, the procedure would be:

  • Rename the data on your original disk partitions (for example, X and Y)
  • Install the new drive and create partitions of data D and E.
  • Copy data from X to Y of E and D
  • Use the disk partitioning application to delete the partitions of X and Y and expand C in the newly available space.

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