Partition Help

[Guest]

Ok I had XP installed on my pc, now we have vista home prmium as well as xp
pro. Hard Drive has 3 partition, I would like to just delete the D: (System
Partition with XP), and Unallocated Space, and add them to the C: (Vista Home
Premium). I tried in disk management but it won't let me delete D: or expand
C: to take up the extra space that is unallocated. Any ideas?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Brandon,

If D: holds the original XP installation, then it is also likely to be the
designated system partition - IE: the one that holds the files that the
system boots from. If you delete it, then the system will not load properly,
if at all. What you would need to do is redesignate the Vista volume (C as
active and run a startup repair to it. Once you are booting from that
volume, you will be able to delete D:.

Now, the tough part is where D: is physically located on the drive. If it is
ahead of or before C:, you will have to use a third party program to slide
C: forward to the beginning of the empty drive space. Only then will you be
able to expand it to encompass the free space created by deleting D:. You
can't expand forward, only from the end of the partition/volume.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Brandon,

Take a look at this site to see whether it contains anything you can use:

http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewstory.php?t=78111

Hope this is useful,

 

[Guest]

OK D: is before C: any ideas on what third party to use, I have been looking
for a couple hours to solve this. Also how do you redesignate c: (vista) as
the active drive and do a startup repair?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Brandon,

For partitioning work I use Bootit ng from terabyteunlimited.com, but there
are others such as Acronis.

Run diskmgmt.msc to look at the drives, right click C: and you will find an
option to set it as active. Warning: Once you do so you are committed to
doing the startup repair. Restart the system with the Vista disk and let
setup initialize, one of the options is the startup repair.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com