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When I reinstalled XP, it loaded into the D: drive which is labeled System Sav. That partition only has about 3GB while the C: partition has about 30Gb. How can I increase the size of the D: partition, or how can I get the system back into the C: partition

Thanks, Bob
 
Hi Bob,

When I reinstalled XP, it loaded into the D: drive which is labeled System Sav. That partition only has about 3GB while the C: partition has about 30Gb. How can I increase the size of the D: partition, or how can I get the system back into the C: partition ?
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You have to use a third-party tool to increase the size of the
partition without formatting. Partition Magic could be used for this:

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

As always, you should back up your data before changing the size of
the partition.

To get the system in the C: partition I'm afraid you'd have to format
and reinstall again.

Good luck
 
System Sav sounds like a hidden partition installed by supplier to contain
recovery data.
You should have done a repair install of winxp not reinstall, you probably
now have two winxp installations.

roger said:
Hi Bob,
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System Sav. That partition only has about 3GB while the C: partition has
about 30Gb. How can I increase the size of the D: partition, or how can I
get the system back into the C: partition ?
 
----- roger wrote: ----

Hi Bob

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:16:04 -0800, "BobF" <[email protected]
wrote
When I reinstalled XP, it loaded into the D: drive which is labeled System Sav. That partition only has about 3GB while the C: partition has about 30Gb. How can I increase the size of the D: partition, or how can I get the system back into the C: partition
Click to expand...

You have to use a third-party tool to increase the size of th
partition without formatting. Partition Magic could be used for this

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic

As always, you should back up your data before changing the size o
the partition

To get the system in the C: partition I'm afraid you'd have to forma
and reinstall again

Good luc

Roger, thanks for the info. I'm going to try to use the tool you suggested to increase the size of the partition. Follow up questions - How do I backup ? Do I need to backup both C & D

Bob
 
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