Unallocated disk space after restore...

[Dennis]

After doing a restore with Acronis 8.0, I now have a partition of
3.82 gig with 5.86 gig unalocated. Can I get this whole drive in
one partition with out losing what is in the 3.87 partition?
Any help greatly appreciated...
This pc has Windows XP upgrade with SP-2 installed with all updates.

 

[Guest]

You did a "system restore" and now youre hd with xp on it has a new
partition....You didnt do a "restore",not with those results....Delete the
new
partition,but with software that does that youre sure to have other problems
down the road.Whats wrong with xp system restore..

 

[Dennis]

The hard drive was trashed. It was loaded with unwanted files from
the internet from kids using it. I tried to do a XP repair first but
there wasn't enough room on the hard drive to copy all the files. I
even set it as a secondary master with another hard drive so I could
access some of the files to deleted and or save them. It eventually
wouldn't be recognized by the CMOS and I had to replace it. So, I used
the Acronis system restore to set it back to the way it was after a
fresh install of all the software. The Acronis is supposed to allow a
larger partition to be used than it was made from but it didn't do it.