Quickly partition a drive?

[sirius]

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me this morning!.

What I want to do, is split my works' PC hardrive into two parts. Windows and all the programs are installed, there are files on it which are important, so I dont wanna risk botching it up if anything dodgy.....but, is there a way to keep this lot intact, and split off another drive letter?. Preferably freeware and small in size so I can get it this morning on a 56k modem.

The 'server' here has a hardrive and its getting fubar'd, things keep going into a hotspot and wont recover, its like russian roulette. Seing as my machine is now the most powerful and has the largest hard drive in the factory, it makes sense to copy the files off the server to my machine and perhaps use mine as the 'server' or atleast as a backup. Theres about 40 gigs to transfer.

So, rather than hunt through 'windows' structure to find a folder with all the stuff, it would be much easier to just have it on an "E" drive straight off, then I can just share that drive letter over the network, remap my collegues' network map to look at my machine as "server" and everythings hunky dory.

Cheers

Sirius.

[johns_ar]

that should do the trick

http://www.snapfiles.com/php/downloa...g=172689&loc=1

[Elev8/Levit8]

... if it's an NTFS system partition which needs resizing, I don't think you can do it...

[johns_ar]

partition magic will do the trick but probs take a while to download on 56k

[sirius]

thanks guys, its getting a bit late for today cos I finish at 1.00, but its handy to know the options for next week.

Andy, on that link you gave me, I checked out the other free tools. Ive just downloaded a virtual drive mapper, where you can select a folder and make it into a windows drive - that sounded ideal. I have installed it, and yes, it makes a drive letter from the folder, and it does all that a partition would do - but it wont let me share the virtual drive/partition over the network . Hey ho.

Thanks for your effort and input, I think I will get the proper partitioner ready for next week and have a go. Or, perhaps look for a virtual drive creator that will let you share over a network.

Cheers

Sirius.

[sirius]

Update: Think Ive sorted it chaps . Managed to map it as I like. I can set the other PC's to map the folder I need now, and on thier machine it comes up as 'Drive F' and Ive renamed the drive "File Server". So, its all nice and neat. .

Thanks

Sirius.

[johns_ar]

just get partition magic mate

ive got a portable version that i use all the time at work on a usb key, its only 25mb or something