system partition too small

[dadecamp 0]

I have a 40gb hard drive that I have only 3gb in the system partition. I keep getting "drive running out of space" messages because 3 people share this pc. I have a 15gb empty partition. Can I combine them somehow and how without reformating?

[AndyFair 0]

PowerQuest's Partition Magic will do the job for you, but I'm not entirely sure I'd be happy doing it with my system partition. Caveat emptor: back up all your data first!

 

You could also try a few other things first, like make sure your users store their files on the empty partition, move the swapfile to the empty partition, and investigate re-installing some apps (games, whatever) to the empty partition.

 

Hope that helps,

AndyF