disk management

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phil carr

I have deleted the extended partition on my hard drive
using the disk management utility in xp home, however,
the space that was freed up(8 GB) does not appear in the
properties of my c: drive and I am still receiving low
disk space warnings. Where have I gone wrong.
 
Windows XP doesnt contain Disk Partitioning software to resize the
partitions. You lost deleted it and the formatting. You will need to
purchase a program like Partition Magic to regain the space to the C: drive.
 
What you can do, is right click on the free space and create a new
partition, a wizard will take you through the steps, assign a drive letter
to it. Then move some stuff over to it from your C: partition to free up
space. You could start by moving the page file which is probably a few
hundred megabytes. You cant do that manually, you have to do it as follows:-

control panel/system/advanced settings/performance settings/advanced
In the bottom 3rd of the windows under virtual memory , click change

Not the current settings and then click on the new drives letter and set
that the same, then go back and set the original settings to no page file
and reboot.

You should also run the cleanup tool, which will free up quite a lot of disk
space , if you haven't run it before.

My computer/right click on disk drive/properties/general tab/ click disk
cleanup

Paul
 
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