Let me get it out of the way: I made a really stupid mistake. There, I feel better now.

While installing Windows XP onto the new computer we built, I decided to follow recommendations I'd seen online and put ths OS on its own partition. I meant to make it 15 GB but screwed up and made it 1.5 GB instead. XP loaded but obviously I'm out of disk space way before being finished with the install and need to enlarge the partition.

I'm aware of software solutions like Partition Magic but really don't want to buy software I'll likely use once. Also, XP has a partition resizing tool built in but from what I've read, you can't use it on the partition that houses the OS. So...

1. Does anyone have experience with shareware that will solve this problem?

2. If I just have to start over, what's the best way to get back to square one?

3. Is there some long-term value to having software like Partition Magic that would justify the expense?

4. Is there a solution I'm overlooking?

5. Don't you enjoy laughing at goofballs like me who know just enough about computers to be dangerous?