Partioning more space

I dual booted my computer a few months ago, but when I patched today it said I ran out of space for the partition I made. How can I add more space to it

i.e. How can I transfer say 50 gigs from my main vista partition to my small XP partition

Burn a boot CD of GParted and boot from it. You can use GParted to resize partitions.

If you don't want to bother freeing up space, you don't have to install MS on your XP partition. You can just use a shortcut that leads to MS on your vista partition. Otherwise, what Spaz said.

If you don't want to bother freeing up space, you don't have to install MS on your XP partition. You can just use a shortcut that leads to MS on your vista partition. Otherwise, what Spaz said.

I think I tried that before, but it didn't work. Or i didn't bother to test it at all. So all I have to do pretty much is

- Delete maplestory on XP partition (This isn't even required really but it will free up space on the partition)
- Create a gamelauncher shortcut from vista harddrive onto my xp desktop

I remember when I did the dual boot, that I had to shrink my harddrive to create a partition. Can that same program be used to resize or do I need to use GParted. And is GParted pretty much straightforward, or do I need a guide, etc...

I remember when I did the dual boot, that I had to shrink my harddrive to create a partition. Can that same program be used to resize or do I need to use GParted.

Disk Management only allows you to use 'Extend Volume' on a partition in which you've gained free space by shrinking that partition. Graphically, you can only use Extend Volume on free space directly to the right of the partition you're enlarging. Free space gained from shrinking your Vista partition will always appear to the left of your XP partition.

GParted has a partition-resize function. It looks fairly self-explanatory from the screenshots on the website. I've never used it so I wouldn't know. Your other option is to ghost your XP partition to a new, larger partition and delete the old XP partition.