Resizing Boot Drives

[BaldEagl]

I just created a dual boot 98SE/XP on my old Dell but now I want to reduce the size attributed to 98 and give it to XP and also tweak the third logical storage drive.  I don't really want to pay for Acronis or PartitionMagic.  Has anyone tried resizing boot partitions with Easus?  What about resizing a 98 partition?  It doesn't list it as a supported OS so I'm just wondering if it will rewrite the disc size in the startup files or if I'll have to do that manually.

[Ghosth]

I did  it once, but I used a linux distro cd to do it.
It had partition tools included with the distro.

Worked pretty well, I think it was Mepis but might have been a different release.

[TheZohan]

theres are a few free partition resizing programs out there.. if you download the ulimate boot disk

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

there are 3-4 on there

[BaldEagl]

Just an FYI to anyone interested.  Easeus Disc Partition (free) worked great.  It's very intuitive and will change partition and logical drive sizes simultaneously, moving your data as needed.  You just click on the partition you want to change, drag the edge of it with the handle and then click appy.  It shuts down the system and as it re-enters Windows it brings up a DOS program which executes the change.  Then it reboots the system and as soon as it enters Windows it brings up the DOS program that reports that everything is done.  As soon as the DOS window closes XP starts right up.

When I resized my operating system partition Windows did ask me to re-start one more time but it wasn't a big deal.  It did'nt require that extra re-start when I resized the storage partition.

It's a very handy and very powerful free tool that I will keep in my sytem toolbox.

[Denholm]

Thanks for the information Eagl! I know I might be using that tool soon.