Removing/renaming partitions/disks in WinXP

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I have a multiboot PC with WinXP, Win98 and 3 different Linux distros.
My PC have 3 hard drives that in WinXp are defined as:

Disk 0 - C: - fat32 - 25Gb, E: NTFS - 18BG
disk 1 - L: - NTFS - 40Gb
Disk 2 - D: - fat32 - 60 Gb

I am not showing Linux partitions.

I replaced disk 0 by new 300Gb disk.

First question - new disk is 300Gb, but WinXp is showing it as 128Gb.
Why?
Last question:
I want to move partition L: and D: to the new HD. How can I do it?

Thanks,

Zalek
 
zalek said:
I have a multiboot PC with WinXP, Win98 and 3 different Linux
distros. My PC have 3 hard drives that in WinXp are defined as:

Disk 0 - C: - fat32 - 25Gb, E: NTFS - 18BG
disk 1 - L: - NTFS - 40Gb
Disk 2 - D: - fat32 - 60 Gb

I am not showing Linux partitions.

I replaced disk 0 by new 300Gb disk.

First question - new disk is 300Gb, but WinXp is showing it as
128Gb. Why?
Last question:
I want to move partition L: and D: to the new HD. How can I do it?
Click to expand...

1) What is the service pack level of XP?
2) Perhaps with a clone/imaging utility like Symantec Ghost, Acronis
TrueImage or BootItNG.
 
Shenan said:
1) What is the service pack level of XP?
2) Perhaps with a clone/imaging utility like Symantec Ghost, Acronis
TrueImage or BootItNG.
Click to expand...

Thanks to all for response - the problem with seeing 128 gb instead of
300Gb is my fault - because I had on my old disk Linux and Win
partition, I used a special software to copy from my old disk the the
new one. Now I found that I need to instal on my new HD (Maxtor,
DiamondMax Ultra 16, ATA) MaxBlast 4 - a special Maxtor utility that
tells WinXp that this is 300GB disk. Somehow Linux knows it is 300GB
without any utility.

So now my last unresolved problem - here is my PC:

Disk 0 - C: - fat32 - 25Gb, E: NTFS - 18BG, unallocated 60Gb
disk 1 - L: - NTFS - 40Gb
Disk 2 - D: - fat32 - 60 Gb

I want to remove disk2, copy partition fronmthe disk 2 to unallocated
space on disk 0 and want it to be called D:\

How can I do it? If I use software to copy partition - it still will be
see by Win as disk d:\ ?

Thanks,

Zalek
 
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