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iori yagami May 01, 2005, 10:15pm EDT Reply - Quote - Report Abuse
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Hi! I have a 30gb maxtor hard disk, I partitioned it to 4 parts. Drives C and D are both 10gb each and drives E and F are both 5 gb each. I want to delete drive F and make drive C 15gb. My question is if I change the disk capacity of drive C, will the other drives be have problem because drive C has changed? I'm afraid that my files in the other drives will be deleted or will have errors. Can I use partition magic for deleting the drive and adding the capacity to drive c or it would be better if I use the fdisk command? Can I do that in windows XP? I hope you can help me. Thanks!


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Paingiver May 01, 2005, 10:38pm EDT Reply - Quote - Report Abuse
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Edited: May 01, 2005, 10:45pm EDT

 
>> Re: Partition problem
Partition Magic will allow you to delete F and then adjust the size of C with no data loss on any of your partitions. Its what the programs mainly used for. :o)

EDIT... Doh! Forgot the second part of your question!

You can use fdisk to delete F with no problem but you cannot adjust the size of C or any other partition without loosing all its data. But you can only use fdisk with XP if the partitions you with to delete are FAT32 and not NTFS.

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Mark Robinson May 02, 2005, 05:45pm EDT Reply - Quote - Report Abuse
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>> Re: Partition problem
Better off just using partition magic. You can delete F, then you have to move D and E over to the far right (if you will) then you can enlarge C. No the other drives wont care that the C drive got bigger. Using Partition Magic you can do all this without (very slim -.002 % lol) losing data, except off F of course.

You can delete the F drive partition inside XP by going to run>compmgmt.msc then selecting Disk Management. Right click on F drive and delete. You wont be able to do any of the other things in XP or with Dos Fdisk without losing Data. I would just use PM.

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