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| Thread ID: 43505 | 2004-03-17 03:30:00 | XP Reinstall loses 15GB | sam m (517) | Press F1 |
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| 223040 | 2004-03-17 03:30:00 | Hi I had planned to reinstal windows XP Pro and then was going to dual boot with Xandros one day. I previously had XP dual boot to Mandrake. Mandrake had 11GB and the balance of my 40GB hard drive was windows. I had run out of space so decided today to reinstal windows to the full hard drive until I could get my hands on Xandros. Now, As I was installing XP it came up to screen with the different partitions that I had previously created. The options were to there delete partitions and to instal XP on one of them. I chose to delete the other partitions and installed XP on C Drive. I thought that by deleting the other partitions that it would automatically reassign that space to the one and only OS I currently have. Instead what I have now is XP installed on C: with the total at 25GB. Is there a simple way to get the remaining 15GB back? or will I have to go through the reinstal again but choose a different option when it comes to the partitioning screen again. At the time I was deleting those other partitions it said that there was some space that was unpartitioned but I could not do anything at the time with that space. cheers sam m |
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| 223041 | 2004-03-17 03:48:00 | Can you not go into Disk Management and create a new 15GB partition from the unallocated hard drive space? I would have thought XP would be able to do that..... ?:| | Susan B (19) | ||
| 223042 | 2004-03-17 05:17:00 | Partition magic can merge the unused space into your XP partition. No more comments. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 223043 | 2004-03-17 06:13:00 | > Partition magic can merge the unused space into your > XP partition. No more comments. except all fixed |
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