Is it difficult to delete an unused partition on the C drive? There's
nothing in the partition , it's empty!

Using WINXP SP2 and would like to be able to utilize the drives full
capacity. Can some some steer me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Matt

Just to add a little to leythos' advice,

You CAN combine partitions but only with 3rd party software like partition
magic. Which you will have to buy unless you are crafty enough to find it
with a working serial for free. haha Well good luck with that partition.

Joe

Kemco IT Professional

"Leythos" wrote:

> In article <MMv7f.177885$qY1.40715@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> mattmast@worldnet.att.net says...
> > Is it difficult to delete an unused partition on the C drive? There's
> > nothing in the partition , it's empty!
> >
> > Using WINXP SP2 and would like to be able to utilize the drives full
> > capacity. Can some some steer me in the right direction.
>
> http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246
>
> this site will explain how to use the Disk Manager tool in XP, but,
> you're not going to be able to JOIN two partitions to each other to make
> a single partition.
>
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Matt Mastriano wrote:

> Is it difficult to delete an unused partition on the C drive? There's
> nothing in the partition , it's empty!
>
> Using WINXP SP2 and would like to be able to utilize the drives full
> capacity. Can some some steer me in the right direction.



It's very easy to delete a partition, but it's unlikely that that's what you
really want to do. That would leave you with unpartitioned space on the
drive, which would therefore be unusable.

My guess is that what you really want to do is not delete the partition, but
combine this unused partition with another existing partition. Unfortunately
that's not so easy. No version of Windows provides any way of changing the
existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to
do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the
best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One
such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a
free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30
days. I haven't used it myself, but it comes highly recommended by several
other MVPs here.
Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.


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