Partition

I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to do a
dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so I could run
the many incompatible programs that would not work on vista. I did the
partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to run my programs. This
worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard drive swelled up and almost
filled my c drive. I got info from the vpc group to compress the virtual
hard drive. I could not perform this function because there was not enough
space on the c drive. I used the vista drive management tool to format drive
e (the drive I partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard drive space
it shows the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My question is how do I
re-assign this formatted space to drive c.

Thanks!!

Hi,

Run diskmgmt.msc from the start/search line. First, is the former E:
immediately after C:? If the answer is yes, then simply right click on C:
and choose expand. If not, meaning it's located anywhere else in relation to
C:, you will need third party partitioning software to manipulate and slide
the volumes until it is immediately after C:.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Tom" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to do a
>dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so I could run
>the many incompatible programs that would not work on vista. I did the
>partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to run my programs. This
>worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard drive swelled up and almost
>filled my c drive. I got info from the vpc group to compress the virtual
>hard drive. I could not perform this function because there was not enough
>space on the c drive. I used the vista drive management tool to format
>drive e (the drive I partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard drive
>space it shows the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My question is
>how do I re-assign this formatted space to drive c.
>
> Thanks!!
>

Tom wrote:
> I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to
> do a dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so
> I could run the many incompatible programs that would not work on
> vista. I did the partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to
> run my programs. This worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard
> drive swelled up and almost filled my c drive. I got info from the
> vpc group to compress the virtual hard drive. I could not perform
> this function because there was not enough space on the c drive. I
> used the vista drive management tool to format drive e (the drive I
> partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard drive space it shows
> the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My question is how do I
> re-assign this formatted space to drive c.
> Thanks!!
===================================
Maybe the following freebie would be worth a try:

EASEUS Partition Manager
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm


--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Thank You!! I used disk manager and my unwanted partition is gone. I
expanded my c partion into the unallocated space. Worked like a charm, no
other problems. Thanks Rick and John for replying!!

Tom
"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:eN$...
> Hi,
>
> Run diskmgmt.msc from the start/search line. First, is the former E:
> immediately after C:? If the answer is yes, then simply right click on C:
> and choose expand. If not, meaning it's located anywhere else in relation
> to C:, you will need third party partitioning software to manipulate and
> slide the volumes until it is immediately after C:.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Tom" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to do a
>>dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so I could
>>run the many incompatible programs that would not work on vista. I did the
>>partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to run my programs. This
>>worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard drive swelled up and almost
>>filled my c drive. I got info from the vpc group to compress the virtual
>>hard drive. I could not perform this function because there was not enough
>>space on the c drive. I used the vista drive management tool to format
>>drive e (the drive I partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard
>>drive space it shows the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My
>>question is how do I re-assign this formatted space to drive c.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>

"John Inzer" wrote:

> Tom wrote:
> > I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to
> > do a dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so
> > I could run the many incompatible programs that would not work on
> > vista. I did the partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to
> > run my programs. This worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard
> > drive swelled up and almost filled my c drive. I got info from the
> > vpc group to compress the virtual hard drive. I could not perform
> > this function because there was not enough space on the c drive. I
> > used the vista drive management tool to format drive e (the drive I
> > partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard drive space it shows
> > the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My question is how do I
> > re-assign this formatted space to drive c.
> > Thanks!!
> ===================================
> Maybe the following freebie would be worth a try:
>
> EASEUS Partition Manager
> http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
>
>
> --
>
> John Inzer MS-MVP
> Digital Media Experience
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>
>