Extending Hard Drive Partition

kookooshortman55

kookooshortman55

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I'm running Windows XP on my netbook, and after reinstalling the OS using the recovery CD, I noticed that I now have a 74GB C: partition and a 74GB d: partition. I was able to go into the control panel and delete the D partition, but now I still have a 74GB C drive and 74GB of unassigned space. Is there any way to extend the C partition without reformatting?
 
Hello,

With a 3rd party partition tool such as partition magic or my personal favorite, acronis disk director. Note: Vista has a nice build in partition manager, however I don't blame you for not using it.
Good luck
 
Yeah I heard about the partition manager in Vista, I used the same thing for mine, but I'm running XP. Apparently the Vista version has a nice feature to just extend the partition. Are those programs things that I would have to boot from?
 
The absolute best i've used, use it for everything, is GParted.
It's the Ubuntu/GNOME built in partition editor, comes on every ubuntu installation since forever.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
You can burn a CD for it , or even USB stick. I've used both and both work. On my netbook i just got, i had to resize the Windows partition to accommodate Ubuntu 9.04 and the swap file, and it did it without any issues :)
 
Delete the old partition to create "Unused Disk Space". Use GParted (Exellent Tool) and simply extend the parition to the C:/ by using the Unused Disk Space.
 
Alright thanks for the replies and the link. I was able to go into the XP Partition manager to delete the D drive but I couldn't figure out how to extend the primary drive into the unassigned space. I'll give GParted a try, and thanks again for all the help.
 
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