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[Guest]

hiya..im running windows xp pro...my hard drive has 2 partitions ...i now
have deleted 1 of the partitions but cannot make the hard drive back to 80
gig as it was..i now have my main boot at 40 gig with the other 40 now
useless..how do i make it back to an 80 gig hard drive??...thx

 

[Roberto]

hiya..im running windows xp pro...my hard drive has 2 partitions ...i now
have deleted 1 of the partitions but cannot make the hard drive back to 80
gig as it was..i now have my main boot at 40 gig with the other 40 now
useless..how do i make it back to an 80 gig hard drive??...thx

You need third party software to do this, Partition Magic is "user
friendly", I personnaly use and like Bootit NG which has a 30 day free
trial .
Google will find both for you.

rgds
Roberto

 

[jmatt]

hiya..im running windows xp pro...my hard drive has 2 partitions ...i now
have deleted 1 of the partitions but cannot make the hard drive back to 80
gig as it was..i now have my main boot at 40 gig with the other 40 now
useless..how do i make it back to an 80 gig hard drive??...thx

Here are some more to look at.

QTParted
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

Partition Logic
http://visopsys.org/partlogic/

SwissKnife
http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
http://www.compuapps.com/download/download.htm

Ranish Partition Manager
http://www.ranish.com/part/
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/sys.htm
No files are lost using it ( Freeware )
Howto use Ranish Partition Manager
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mosaddique/Partitioning with Ranish.html

Fips
http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/
FIPS is a Freeware program for non-destructive splitting of harddisk
partitions, no files are lost using it. Plenty of help.

 

[jmatt]

fisherman wrote:
how do i make it back to an 80 gig hard drive??...thx

No matter which way you try, make sure you have backed up your
important stuff 1st, address book etc.

 

[Guest]

BACKUP YOUR DATA and try this;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590