Unable to Recover Space from System Restore

[Ian Bishop]

I have a bizarre problem:

I have a 27 gig HD and WinXP.
I only have 23 gig available because 4 gig are used by
System Restore. I never ever use System Restore so I
simply want the HD space back.

I am not sure if my old roommate already tried to turn off
System Restore, but the System Restore tab is NOT under the
System properties. With a right-click on "My Computer" and
selection of Manage I can look under Disk Management and
see that my HD is split between a 23 gig C:\ drive and a 4
gig drive with a blank name. While both partitions are
listed as healthy, the C:\ is labeled "System" while the
blank (former?) System Restore drive is labeled "EISA
Configuration". The blank partition claims to be 100% free
space with 4 gig available.

Please, if anyone knows how to solve my problem and turn
the blank partition into a functioning drive D:\ (my CD-ROM
has already been moved to Q:\), I would be very grateful.

-Ian

 

[D.Currie]

I have a bizarre problem:

I have a 27 gig HD and WinXP.
I only have 23 gig available because 4 gig are used by
System Restore. I never ever use System Restore so I
simply want the HD space back.

I am not sure if my old roommate already tried to turn off
System Restore, but the System Restore tab is NOT under the
System properties. With a right-click on "My Computer" and
selection of Manage I can look under Disk Management and
see that my HD is split between a 23 gig C:\ drive and a 4
gig drive with a blank name. While both partitions are
listed as healthy, the C:\ is labeled "System" while the
blank (former?) System Restore drive is labeled "EISA
Configuration". The blank partition claims to be 100% free
space with 4 gig available.

Please, if anyone knows how to solve my problem and turn
the blank partition into a functioning drive D:\ (my CD-ROM
has already been moved to Q:\), I would be very grateful.

-Ian

System restore doesn't exist on a separate partition, so that's not what's
going on. However, your computer manufacturer might have put your system
recovery information on that second partition, in which case you shouldn;t
mess with it. If you ever need to reinstall Windows, that partition may be
your only way to do so.

If you're sure the second partition is of no use to you, you could simply
format it.