Increasing size of existing partition

My curent Windows XP bootcamp partition is 35 Gigs using FAT. I would like to increase the size to 90 Gigs. I underdstand this requires the NTFS format. Can I increase the existing partition size without starting over? I don't want to reinstall Windows and all the Applications.
Thanks for any help you can provide.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
to my knowledge the resizing can only be done with NTFS Windows partitions not with FAT32 partitions.
CampTune http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptune/ would be my choice for the resizing.
You can convert your FAT32 partition to NTFS before doing the resize using these instructions http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B307881&x=3&y=15
For safety reasons you might backup your valuable files from your current Windows before resizing.
Regards
Stefan

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