partition removal

[Tony Talmage]

I have a dual boot setup, WinXP and Linux Mandrake 9.1, and each operating system (obviously) has its own partition. I want to remove the Linux partition without removing or affecting the Windows partition; is this possible? I doubt I can add the newly released space from the Linux partition to the Windows partition, so I don't expect more headroom in Windows.

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Tony Talmage
Web Developer
email: tony AT graphiced DOT com
Graphic Education Corporation
URL: http://www.graphiced.com
Phone: (888) 354-6600

 

[Tony Talmage]

Can't get the partition manager to work properly. It did get me into GUI one time, but it said my HDD was only 16MB, which is obviously grossly inaccurate. Are there any other free partition programs that would aid me in achieving my goal?

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Tony Talmage
Web Developer
email: tony AT graphiced DOT com
Graphic Education Corporation
URL: http://www.graphiced.com
Phone: (888) 354-6600

-----Original Message-----
I have a dual boot setup, WinXP and Linux Mandrake 9.1,

and each operating system (obviously) has its own
partition. I want to remove the Linux partition without
removing or affecting the Windows partition; is this
possible? I doubt I can add the newly released space
from the Linux partition to the Windows partition, so I
don't expect more headroom in Windows.

--
Tony Talmage
Web Developer
email: tony AT graphiced DOT com
Graphic Education Corporation
URL: http://www.graphiced.com
Phone: (888) 354-6600

Ranish Partition Manager v2.44 Beta

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_download/0,fid,6170,
fileidx,1,00.asp

 

[Malke]

Can't get the partition manager to work properly. It did get me into
GUI one time, but it said my HDD was only 16MB, which is obviously
grossly inaccurate. Are there any other free partition programs that
would aid me in achieving my goal?

--
Tony Talmage
Web Developer
email: tony AT graphiced DOT com
Graphic Education Corporation
URL: http://www.graphiced.com
Phone: (888) 354-6600


and each operating system (obviously) has its own
partition. I want to remove the Linux partition without
removing or affecting the Windows partition; is this
possible? I doubt I can add the newly released space
from the Linux partition to the Windows partition, so I
don't expect more headroom in Windows.

If you couldn't get the Ranesh partition manager to work (and since you
don't say why, we can't help you with that), download the trial version
of Partition Magic and use it to remove the Linux partition.

Malke

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a dual boot setup, WinXP and Linux Mandrake 9.1, and each operating system (obviously) has its own partition. I want to remove theLinux partition without removing or affecting the Windows partition; is this possible? I doubt I can add the newly released space from the Linuxpartition to the Windows partition, so I don't expect more headroom in Windows.

Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk
Management and look lower right for the graphic of the drive. You
should be able to identify the Linux partition (it will be 'Healthy
(Unknown)' and right click and then delete. You can then r-click in the
resulting Unallocated (or Free) space and create partition, which will
carry on to format it for use. Once done, reboot to bring it into
proper service. You can only add the space to the existing windows
partition with third party partition managers, but would be able to move
major data storage, like all your My Documents to the new one.

To do that, open a My Computer window on C:\Documents and Settins\<you>
to show 'My documents'; another on the new partition, and *right* drag
the folder across, taking *Move* here