retreiving lost hard drive space

[lee]

Hi can someone help
I have partitioned my hard drive twice so i had a C D E
drives, i then decided to delete these drives and did so
but my C drive the primary drive still only shows 5 GIG
When the total space is 14 GIG.
Does anyone know how to reclaim the lost space?????

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Lee;
Deleting the other drives does not automatically allocate their space
to C drive.
In fact you can't merge the space to C with Windows native tools
without destroying all data on C drive.

To preserve data you need to use a 3rd party application to add the
space to C:
http://www.bootitng.com/
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/
Data should be safe, back-up important data just in case.

 

[Guest]

what kind of process have you tried in deleting your partitions? have you tried using FDISK so that you'll be sure that you've deleted everything from logical, extended, etc..

 

[squidfoot]

have you tried acronis partition magic?

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