Resizing FAT partition

[dietergw]

Hi,

I have an NT4 machine with a 2G FAT partition on a 10G drive. The FAT partition has been filled to capacity and I need to increase its size. What would be the best way of doing this? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[wolluf]

Partition Magic if you've got/can get a copy - and you'll need to change filestore to NTFS (I know NT supports 4GB FAT partitions, but IMHO ...).

If you can't use PM, just converting the FAT partition to NTFS (convert C: /FS:NTFS from a command prompt) will release a lot of space - just because of cluster sizes (I did this a few years ago - 2GB partition, 1.2GB filled. After convertion, 900MB filled). You can create new partition(s) in the free space using NT's Disk adminstrator (so, for example might be a good idea to install software/save data on second partition - even uninstalling and reinstalling to free up space. Can also put pagefile on second partition).