Managing Partitions

[Barry]

3 Years ago I bought a dual core 2gb ram XP laptop.

After one of John's sessions about partitions I decided to create a partition which I did without a problem.

Recently I decide to revert to one partition as I always seemed to pick the wrong location/partition when looking for files, folders or pictures.

I moved all my files and folders back onto C drive and deleted all unwanted files on the partition I had previously created then successfully deleted the partition.

As C drive was now 90% full I wanted to extend the space on C drive by 70 GB (The size of the partition I had created previously)

Following instructions in windows help on partitions it seemed a straightforward operation except it didn't work.

Disk 0 now has only 1GB Unallocated
Disk 1 has 74.53 GB Unallocated

How can I utilise or reclaim the space on Disk 1 and return as status quo?

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[Administrator]

Hi Barry,
The way I see it you have completely removed the partition disk2 with 70 GB and want to reclaim it. Right?

OK let´s see. First of all you should make sure to make a complete backup of your c-Drive.

all you have to do is to rightclick on the unallocated partition, format it and see what drive letter it gets. if it´s D: then you should be able to expand your C: Drive.

Good Luck!

If it does not work just let me know next saturday and i´ll take a look at it

Andreas

[Barry]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the information re;- Managing Partitions.

I went through the procedure as suggested and formatted disk1, it didn't provide a letter automatically so I 'named' it D.

I then tried extending C into disc 1 but no success.

I'm not sure if the disc/s are basic,,dynamic or other and what difference this would make if any, the procedure given in windows help seems to suggest space cannot be extended to another disc unless certain criteria is met which is a bit beyond my computing experience.

Your offer of help next Saturday is much appreciated.

Thanks for your assistance in this matter.

Barry

[Andreas Prescher]

Hi Berry,

I just fount a pretty cool tool to resize your xp partitions

here is the link (freeware)
www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Disk_Maintenance_and_Repair_Utilities/Partition_Wizard_Home_Edition.html

Good luck!
Andreas

[Barry]

Hello Andreas,
Thanks for the information, the programme is excellent and so easy to use. I just clicked on the link and within seconds was on the website, clicked on the download, ran the installation and in less than five minutes I had extended the partition to it's maximum limit.
Can't understand why microsoft have to make everything so complicated when a programme like the Partition Wizard can do in seconds what microsoft can't in XP anyway.
Clearly the Partition Wizard isn't a programme you need every day but I think it's one of my 'Essential' pieces of free software along with Yankee Clipper, Gadwin Print Screen & Glary Utilities all of which I use daily.