Windows 2000/hard drive partition

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Novice2000

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I installed Windows 2000 Professional Upgrade on a laptop which had Windows 98 on it. It had 2 partitions. The one for drive C is what I installed Windows 2000 Professional on and where Windows 98 was on. The drive C partition is about 2 GB. The other partition, drive D, is about 2.5 GB and has absolutely nothing on it. I don't know why someone would create a second partition with nothing on it. The problem is that drive C only has about 100 KB left on it. Is there anyway I can combine the two partitions without reinstalling the operating system?

The reason is because when I installed Windows 2000 Professional, I was allowed to keep all the programs that were on this laptop when it had Windows 98. I don't have these disks and wouldn't be able to install all of these programs if I made a clean installation. Also, this being an upgrade, it needs something like Windows 98 on here first, which I don't have a disk for. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I didn't take the option of having the disk formatted to NTFS when I installed it. I figured it was probably formatted with FAT 32. Now I see that it's only formatted with just FAT. Now I regret not formatting it to NTFS. Is there anyway I can still format it to NTFS with Windows 2000 Professional already installed on it?
 
Camper said:
There are programs out there that can resize had drive partitions. I don't know of good free programs off the top of my head. Norton Partition Magic will do the job but it's not free.
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Gparted, info here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Click on Download on the left side of the screen, then select the Live CD option, and choose your version. Burn it to a CD as a .iso image so it will be bootable.
 
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