Full Boot partition with XP Home Upgrade - how to expand?

[Peter Dulimov]

Hi All,

I have upgraded Win98 to WinXP Home, and the XP install went into a
2GB partition. I was dual booting Win98 with another OS, and when I
decided to upgrade to XP I deleted the old OS.

This meant that I had 3 partitions on my disk:

0: 600 MB Primary partition (Fat32), holding Win98
1: 2GB FAT32 partition
2: 2GB FAT32 "logical" partition
~ about 30GB of free space formerly used by another os

Anyway, when I installed XP, it went into partition 1, which was
converted to NTFS. Subsequently, this partition has filled up (about
85mb free now), so I have deleted the partition 2, thinking that I
could extend partition 1 into the free space.
Alas no! Neither diskpart nor the Management Console will allow the
boot partition (partition 1) to be expanded.

What can I do?

Cheers,

Peter.

 

[Squire]

Besides starting from scratch, you can acquire a 3rd party partition manager
such as Partition Magic or BootIt NG.
You can change partitions on the fly without losing any programs already
installed.