Hardware Analysis - Partition problem

Re: Partition problem

Mark Robinson — 2005-05-02T21:45:37-05:00

Better off just using partition magic. You can delete F, then you have to move D and E over to the far right (if you will) then you can enlarge C. No the other drives wont care that the C drive got bigger. Using Partition Magic you can do all this without (very slim -.002 % lol) losing data, except off F of course.

You can delete the F drive partition inside XP by going to run>compmgmt.msc then selecting Disk Management. Right click on F drive and delete. You wont be able to do any of the other things in XP or with Dos Fdisk without losing Data. I would just use PM.

Re: Partition problem

Paingiver — 2005-05-02T02:38:46-05:00

Partition Magic will allow you to delete F and then adjust the size of C with no data loss on any of your partitions. Its what the programs mainly used for. :o)

EDIT... Doh! Forgot the second part of your question!

You can use fdisk to delete F with no problem but you cannot adjust the size of C or any other partition without loosing all its data. But you can only use fdisk with XP if the partitions you with to delete are FAT32 and not NTFS.

Partition problem

iori yagami — 2005-05-02T02:15:27-05:00

Hi! I have a 30gb maxtor hard disk, I partitioned it to 4 parts. Drives C and D are both 10gb each and drives E and F are both 5 gb each. I want to delete drive F and make drive C 15gb. My question is if I change the disk capacity of drive C, will the other drives be have problem because drive C has changed? I'm afraid that my files in the other drives will be deleted or will have errors. Can I use partition magic for deleting the drive and adding the capacity to drive c or it would be better if I use the fdisk command? Can I do that in windows XP? I hope you can help me. Thanks!