How do I enlarge a partition?

When I installed my 30gb HDD, I created a primary partition for the OS of 2gb and left the rest at 28gb. Now the 2gb partition is almost full - even though I am careful to load everything onto the other drive.

I have tried to enlarge the partition using Partition Magic (7) but it says that the maximum size for the partition is 2gb. I have tried reducing the size of the other drive but it doesn't make any difference.

Can anyone help?

 

If your primary partition is Fat16, then thats as far as it can be increased. If it's Fat32, then reduce your secondary partition, to make free space at the beginning, then increase the primary.

Hope you're using Partition Magic from floppies!

 

Now the 2gb partition is almost full

Holly Mackeral. I have a 1.9gig primary and have 996 meg free.

I am running the original Win98 with a fixed size swap file on E: drive.

As luqa stated you will need the Primary in 32bit format to increase the size of it. Even with PM.

But you also needed to decrease the size ( at the begining ) of the extended partition first.

Hope you're using Partition Magic from floppies!

DITTO !!!!