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Deleted partition unable to be used?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Kevin McM, 2007/03/28.

  1. 2007/03/28
    Kevin McM

    Kevin McM Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi! After deleting a partition on 1(C DRIVE) of my 2 hard drives, I am left with

    C: 26.98gb Fat 32 and 997Mb (Free Space).
    (Healthy System)

    The 997 mb being the former D drive. It looks like the C drive is not using the free space. The C drive has approx 9gb free. How do I resolve please?
     
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  2. 2007/03/28
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Kevin - Welcome to the Board :)

    If I understand you correctly you have deleted a partition through Disk Management and now have 997 Mb of free space (maybe Unallocated).

    Windows will not automatically expand the C:\ partition to include that free space and you have two options ....

    Use Disk Management to create a partition in that free space which takes you back to square 1 or ...

    Use a third party partitioning manager such as Partition Magic to increase the size of the C:\ drive to include the free space. It is not possible to do this in Windows.

    If you choose the latter route be sure to back up your data - it is not unheard of for things to go wrong when changing the partition structure.

    My own view would be, given that you do not have Partition Magic or similar installed, to reinstate the D:\ partition and treat it as another folder.
     
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