using unallocated space

[Matt]

Hello-

I have a 80gig HDD that I partitioned into a 70gig and
10gig partitions. No problems there. I was using the
10gig for personal files and such. Well I wanted to
combine the two partition again, so I deleted the 10gig
partition in Disk Management. Now I have 9.77GB of
unallocated disk space.
How do I asign that space back to make my HDD its
original 80gigs?

TIA,
Matt

 

[Malke]

Hello-

I have a 80gig HDD that I partitioned into a 70gig and
10gig partitions. No problems there. I was using the
10gig for personal files and such. Well I wanted to
combine the two partition again, so I deleted the 10gig
partition in Disk Management. Now I have 9.77GB of
unallocated disk space.
How do I asign that space back to make my HDD its
original 80gigs?

TIA,
Matt

If you don't want to lose the data in C: (which would mean completely
reinstalling Windows), you'll need third-party partitioning software
such as Partition Magic.

Malke

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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I have a 80gig HDD that I partitioned into a 70gig and
10gig partitions. No problems there. I was using the
10gig for personal files and such. Well I wanted to
combine the two partition again, so I deleted the 10gig
partition in Disk Management. Now I have 9.77GB of
unallocated disk space.
How do I asign that space back to make my HDD its
original 80gigs?

No version of Windows has ever had the ability to change the
partition structure of a drive non-destructively. You have only
two choices:

1. Start from scratch by wiping out everything on your drive,
recreating a single 80GB partition, and reinstalling Windows and
everything else.

2. Buy a third-party program like Partition Magic to do what you
want non-destructively. But if you do that, be sure to have a
backup of anything you can't afford to lose, in case something
goes wrong.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


If you don't want to lose the data in C: (which would mean completely
reinstalling Windows), you'll need third-party partitioning software
such as Partition Magic.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
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Ok Thank you. I'll give that a try and see how it goes.

-Matt