Disk Mamagement Question

[Philipamerica]

Hello Friends at Microsoft Discussion Group,
I had removed a disaster recovery software program and it left me with "2"
local drives. "C" & this new "F" local drive. I had 68% free space on my
"C" drive before i installed the program, and after i removed it, i saw I had
(about) 22% free space left on "C" (49GB) and 35GB on the "F" drive the
software created... I was able to go into Disk Management to remove the "F"
partition but thought i would automaticly get the free space back on "C" it
shows "Unallocated" space in disk management..
when i right click the unallocated space i only see "Make new Partition" how
would i put (merge) the unallocated (35GB) back into "C" drive?.. would i
need something like "Partition Magic"? or can Disk management or windows do
it?? I hope something can do it! thank you for your help!.. from Philip..

 

[Rich Barry]

Go below and download this very easy to use Partition Manager.
http://easus-partition-manager-express.smartcode.com/info.html

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hello Friends at Microsoft Discussion Group,
I had removed a disaster recovery software program and it left me with
"2"
local drives. "C" & this new "F" local drive. I had 68% free space on my
"C" drive before i installed the program, and after i removed it, i saw I
had
(about) 22% free space left on "C" (49GB) and 35GB on the "F" drive the
software created... I was able to go into Disk Management to remove the
"F"
partition but thought i would automaticly get the free space back on "C"
it
shows "Unallocated" space in disk management..
when i right click the unallocated space i only see "Make new Partition"
how
would i put (merge) the unallocated (35GB) back into "C" drive?.. would i
need something like "Partition Magic"? or can Disk management or windows
do
it?? I hope something can do it! thank you for your help!.. from
Philip..

Before you go playing with the partition tables, back up all of your data.

Backups should *never* go to the same physical disk, regardless of what
partition is used.

 

[Richard]

Hello Friends at Microsoft Discussion Group,
I had removed a disaster recovery software program and it left me with
"2" local drives. "C" & this new "F" local drive. I had 68% free space
on my "C" drive before i installed the program, and after i removed it,
i saw I had (about) 22% free space left on "C" (49GB) and 35GB on the
"F" drive the software created... I was able to go into Disk Management
to remove the "F" partition but thought i would automaticly get the free
space back on "C" it shows "Unallocated" space in disk management..
when i right click the unallocated space i only see "Make new Partition"
how would i put (merge) the unallocated (35GB) back into "C" drive?..
would i need something like "Partition Magic"? or can Disk management
or windows do it?? I hope something can do it! thank you for your
help!..
from Philip..

Start> Run> diskmgmt.msc

On menu bar, click Help.

Disk Management Help:
Best Practices: Back up data - Deleting or creating partitions or volumes
destroys any existing data. Be sure to back up the disk contents
beforehand. As with any major change to disk contents, you should back up
the entire contents of the hard disk before working with partitions or
volumes, even if you do not plan to make any changes to one or more of your
partitions or volumes.

Disk Management Help:
How To> Manage basic volumes> Extend a basic volume

Read the whole topic, but note this:

"If the partition was previously formatted with the NTFS file system, the
file system is automatically extended to occupy the larger partition. No
data loss occurs. If the partition was previously formatted with any file
system format other than NTFS, the command fails with no change to the
partition."

"You cannot extend the current system or boot partitions."

FREE EASEUS Partition Master (Free for Home users) Windows 2000-XP-Vista
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

FWIW. --Richard