To resize partitions you first reduce the size of the one your taking from....then increase the one you want to be bigger. The advice about cleaning up, fraggingand deleting old filesfirst is good.
Personally I would go out and buy a new bigger drive, they are cheap and faster, and I wouldn't partition it.
You could enable compression on both drives/partitions; that will help free up a bit of space at the expence of some performance but as many other people have said the best thing you can do is get a new larger capacity drive or a couple of drives if you can. Have one driveto store your files, music videos etc and have the other for your OS. Thats what I did. If I ever need to format my drive, I have very little that I need to backup before I do it.
If thats the sort of setup you are after, I've written a guide which I made to help people move files from their system drive to a second drive. This is a great way to make it easy to maintain in the long term.
I need to transfer 20 GB from (D) to (C) ... so I want (C) to have : 57.1 GB
St-Aries
Something new in Vista that I missed when testing RCT1/ RCT2 is an included partition modification program, "DiskPart" that will enable a user to resize the partitions in the same manner that Partition Magic does. First, set up a reduction in the size of the partition with more room on it, then set up the filled partition to expand into the newly unallocated space.
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