by David Hakala

Sometimes it is desirable to change the size of a drive partition. Perhaps you underestimated the amount of space that a partition needed, or you want to shrink a partition to make room for another one.

Windows XP lets you create new partitions using any unallocated space on a drive. But changing the size of existing partitions is a pain. You have to back up all your data and programs; boot from a DOS CD (or floppy, if you still have one of those); use the FDISK utility to change existing partitions; reformat the partitions; and reinstall all that data. There has to be a better way!
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