Hard Drive Partition

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Har-Brack 67

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I have a Compaq Presario. The hard drive is partitioned into two seperate drives. One D and one C drive. The D drive is for their recovery software. The machine came with XP Home Edition. I subsequently upgraded to XP Professional. The D drive is only 3.89 GB and fills up quickly. I also found out that for some reason the D drive is being selected as the default drive when I load software. I first would like to change the default for software installs. I have heard that the Registry is where that change would be done but I can not find an explanation. Can anyone help?
 
you can use partition magic 8 to do away with the partition all together, sounds like it is creating a headache that you do not need. 3.89 gb is kind of a waste for a drive. just a thought.
 
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By simple booting up with the XP Pro installation disk you can delete the no longer needed 3.89gb hidden recovery partition since you have removed the original Windows installation and then cancel the installation there. But you will still have to resize the new primary to add that now vacant space to the C drive.

Besides paying out for a retail partitioning tool you can just as easily use a free Linux partitioning tool, the Gnome Partition Editor also known as GParted live for cd to increase the size of the primary as well as delete the 3.89gb recovery partition. Have a cd writer? A free to use program known as BurnOn will write the iso image onto a bootable cd for both things that need to be done.

BurnOn is found at http://www.burnworld.com/burnoncddvd/ The latest version of GParted that doesn't require mounting the image is the 0.3.3.0 release found #6 from the top of the list seen on the download page at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828
 
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