Moving and resizing Partitions in vista

Although vista has a cool partition management tool inbuilt, you cannot perform powerful operations like increase your primary boot partition space by bringing in free space from the end or another drive etc.

Gparted allows you to do that flawlessly. Here's a good howto on that:

http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/04/move_partitions_around_on_vist.html

I'm plannin to use it myself and see how it goes...

Other unrecommended but possible alternatives include:

• www.partition-tool.com/resource/resize-vista-partition.htm
• http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/04/07/how-to-work-with-partitions-in-windows-vista-xp-when-disk-management-doesnt-work
• www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/