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Old June 23rd 13, 07:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Brian Dude
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Hello, years ago when I first set up my system I set up a partition on
my C drive. I had a project in mind at the time and I thought I was
going to need a 13GB partition. I've since done away with the idea, but
not I want to get those 13 Gigs back to my C drive. I went to "Computer
Management" and I /think/ I chose "Delete partition" from the
right-click menu. Whatever I did, it simply labeled the partition as
'unallocated'. It didn't incorporate it back into the C drive. Is there
a way to do this?

TIA,
Brian
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Old June 23rd 13, 08:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
JJ[_10_]
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On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:33:21 -0400, Brian Dude wrote:
Hello, years ago when I first set up my system I set up a partition on
my C drive. I had a project in mind at the time and I thought I was
going to need a 13GB partition. I've since done away with the idea, but
not I want to get those 13 Gigs back to my C drive. I went to "Computer
Management" and I /think/ I chose "Delete partition" from the
right-click menu. Whatever I did, it simply labeled the partition as
'unallocated'. It didn't incorporate it back into the C drive. Is there
a way to do this?


What you did only free the space used for the other partition.
You'll need to extend the C: drive.

Use DISKPART from the command prompt.

Enter this command: LIST DISK
You'll see a list of disk to choose.

Look at the "Disk ###" column, then enter command: SELECT DISK #
Where "#" is the disk number. e.g.: SELECT DISK 0

Enter command: LIST VOLUME
You'll see a list of disk to choose.

Look at the "Volume ###" column, then enter command: SELECT VOLUME #
Where "#" is the volume number. e.g.: SELECT VOLUME 0

Then enter this command: EXTEND
It'll extend the selected volume to use all free space that follows.
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Old June 23rd 13, 08:43 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
JJ[_10_]
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 02:39:36 +0700, JJ wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:33:21 -0400, Brian Dude wrote:
Hello, years ago when I first set up my system I set up a partition on
my C drive. I had a project in mind at the time and I thought I was
going to need a 13GB partition. I've since done away with the idea, but
not I want to get those 13 Gigs back to my C drive. I went to "Computer
Management" and I /think/ I chose "Delete partition" from the
right-click menu. Whatever I did, it simply labeled the partition as
'unallocated'. It didn't incorporate it back into the C drive. Is there
a way to do this?


What you did only free the space used for the other partition.
You'll need to extend the C: drive.

Use DISKPART from the command prompt.

Enter this command: LIST DISK
You'll see a list of disk to choose.

Look at the "Disk ###" column, then enter command: SELECT DISK #
Where "#" is the disk number. e.g.: SELECT DISK 0

Enter command: LIST VOLUME
You'll see a list of disk to choose.

Look at the "Volume ###" column, then enter command: SELECT VOLUME #
Where "#" is the volume number. e.g.: SELECT VOLUME 0

Then enter this command: EXTEND
It'll extend the selected volume to use all free space that follows.


Type EXIT when done
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Old June 24th 13, 11:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Brian Dude
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On 6/23/2013 3:43 PM, JJ wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 02:39:36 +0700, JJ wrote:

What you did only free the space used for the other partition.
You'll need to extend the C: drive.

Use DISKPART from the command prompt.

Enter this command: LIST DISK
You'll see a list of disk to choose.

Look at the "Disk ###" column, then enter command: SELECT DISK #
Where "#" is the disk number. e.g.: SELECT DISK 0

Enter command: LIST VOLUME
You'll see a list of disk to choose.

Look at the "Volume ###" column, then enter command: SELECT VOLUME #
Where "#" is the volume number. e.g.: SELECT VOLUME 0

Then enter this command: EXTEND
It'll extend the selected volume to use all free space that follows.


Type EXIT when done


Thank you for showing me this utility. I've never used it before, but, I
got an error:

DiskPart failed to extend the volume.
Please make sure the volume is valid for extending.
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Old June 25th 13, 01:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
George
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"Brian Dude" wrote in message
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Hello, years ago when I first set up my system I set up a
partition on my C drive. I had a project in mind at the time and
I thought I was going to need a 13GB partition. I've since done
away with the idea, but not I want to get those 13 Gigs back to
my C drive. I went to "Computer Management" and I /think/ I
chose "Delete partition" from the right-click menu. Whatever I
did, it simply labeled the partition as 'unallocated'. It didn't
incorporate it back into the C drive. Is there a way to do this?

TIA,
Brian



I used EaseUS Partition Master (free) for this some years ago.
http://www.easeus.com/download.htm

HTH,
George


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Old June 25th 13, 05:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
JJ[_10_]
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:20:19 -0400, Brian Dude wrote:
Thank you for showing me this utility. I've never used it before, but, I
got an error:

DiskPart failed to extend the volume.
Please make sure the volume is valid for extending.


I forgot that it can't extend the system partition since it's being used.
You'll have to use a partiton manager from a bootable CD like George
mentioned.
 




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