Trying to free hardrive space using BootiT NG

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Monkster

Hi,
I have an P3 that I got from Dell with Win 98SE installed on it. I
want to upgrade to XP Pro. I don't have enough space on my C: drive to
install. The good folks at Dell sent my new PC with the hard drive(20
gb) partitioned into 5 volumes when I bought it. Anyway after
moving/deleting etc I still can't free enough space on my C: drive to
install XP. I bought BootIT NG to try and fix the problem. I have
plenty of drive space. I can free up plenty of space from other
volumes but BootIt won't let me "rezize" C: any larger than it already
is for some reason. I can down size but not increase size. Can I merge
2 volumes? for example C: and D:? What about duplicate file names?
Does anyone know why BootIt is not allowing me to increase the size of
my c: volume?

Thanks,
Mark
 
Hello

Stop what your doing and just go out and purcahse yourself
a bigger harddrive and install XP, that is your best solution

Alvin
 
Good answer if I new what I was doing but I am not saavy enough to
install a hard drive on my on. Any other suggestions would be
appreciated!
 
Originally, the primary volume was FAT but I convereted it to FAT32
but still cannot increase the size > 2GB. Any suggestions?????
 
Hello

You will have to repartition your harddrive which mean that you
will have to backup your data. That is the best solution for you
to do. Back up your important data and then delete the partitions
and then just create one partition

Alvin
 
In order to increase your partition size you have to have free space
adjacent to the c: drive. If your other partitions have data on them you
can't increase the size of c:. You would need to remove any data from the
other partition(s) and then free it up to expand the c: drive.
 
Monkster said:
I have an P3 that I got from Dell with Win 98SE installed on it. I
want to upgrade to XP Pro. I don't have enough space on my C: drive to
install. The good folks at Dell sent my new PC with the hard drive(20
gb) partitioned into 5 volumes when I bought it. Anyway after
moving/deleting etc I still can't free enough space on my C: drive to
install XP. I bought BootIT NG to try and fix the problem. I have
plenty of drive space. I can free up plenty of space from other
volumes but BootIt won't let me "rezize" C: any larger than it already
is for some reason. I can down size but not increase size. Can I merge
2 volumes? for example C: and D:? What about duplicate file names?
Click to expand...

The other volumes will be inside an 'Extended partition. You have to
'slide 'them up this so that all the free space is up front (above
their entries in BING). Them you have to select the containing
extended partition and resize that, specifying as much free space
outside, in front, as possible, with none inside.

You will then be able to resize C into the space released. But you
can't if the free space is *inside' the extended partition 'container';
the free space must be outside and adjacent to C
 
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