Unallocated hard disk space

Question

Hi,   I am completely stuck and confused, and am in serious need of some advice!   I partitioned my hard drive (c) several months back into 2 parts and stored backups in the partition.  I recently purchased a second external hard drive and wanted to get rid of the partition on the original c:/ drive to make it one big drive once again.   I have successfully managed to delete the partition, but now just have 10.75 gb 'Unallocated space' on the drive (was previously the partition).  I can do nothing with this space, and have not been able to just extend the c drive to make use of it.   I have followed some instructions on window involving 'DISKPART' - but this does not work and just says failed.  I am at a loss now and do not know really what to do.    Does anyone know what I can do to make use of this unallocated space?  I am really not too good on this sort of stuff, so any help would be gratefully appreciated.  I actually have Acronis True image although it is only the OEM version and having scoured the help pages for hours have resulted to posting on this forum for help!   thanks a lot

bacillus · Answer

If you don't want to start from scratch and recreate your partitions then you will have to use a third-party software such as Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director.

Jonwright1980 · Answer

OK, thanks Lets say I do want to start from scratch and recreate my partitions - how should I go about doing this?  I really have no clue and am not sure where to look for information. thanks

bacillus · Answer

When you boot from the XP CD and enter setup you have the option of deleting your partitions. You will have to do this and then recreate a single partition so that it uses your entire hard drive.

Once that is done, you simply format the partition and install XP. As you may have realised, if you do the above you will lose all your data and programmes as your hard disk will effectively be wiped.

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