How to move a partition to another drive on the same hard drive

[Manik]

Hello.
I installed Windows 7 RC on another partition (E) but would like to migrate the partition from F on C. Is this possible? Thank you in advance

[newtech]

I would personally rather install fresh than do this. There are going to be registry entries and ini config file issues, and perhaps some license issues that trigger when you do this. There are special programs for migrating stuff like this, but they aren't perfect, and for peace of mind i would avoid it if at all possible.

[Expertz]

There may be a few difficulties there, i'd guess the easiest way to move the OS to E: would be to re-install it, but if you have no data to loose then try ghosting it from one to the other, the ghost2k3 program is DOS based and you will need at lleast a windows 98 bootable floppy with the ghost progam on to use it, it won't find to drive as usable because it is more than likely NTFS and not FAT32 but it should still work.

[JAMES_911]

you can use partition magic. but moving data across partition is a risky business. because first, there are known cases where it took days to finish the migration. also some n00bs thought it was ok to switch it off, so boom, finish! and second, datas were known to screw up due to power outages or faulty hdds. so you wouldnt know... I was once a victim before better play it safe or use the clone method.