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hard drive was partitioned

Posted: 01-20-2004, 06:19 PM
Josh
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You will have to repartition it and tell it to use the
whole drive capacity. Other than that I've heard of a
utility that may come w/ XP, not sure, that can fix your
paritions without having to ruin your OS and start over.
If you want to reformat and start over repartition it
there, if not try to find the utility to fix your current
partition.
>-----Original Message-----
>My hard 20gb hrad drive was partitioned but I can only
access one part leaving me with 16gb losing 4gb Can I get
back th other 4gb?
>.
>

hard drive was partitioned


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Yves Leclerc
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Re: hard drive was partitioned
Posted: 01-20-2004, 07:04 PM
No utility comes with XP that allows to repartition without loss of data.
You need to get a 3rd party utility like Partition Magic by PowerQuest (now
owned by Symantec).

Y.

"Josh" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> You will have to repartition it and tell it to use the
> whole drive capacity. Other than that I've heard of a
> utility that may come w/ XP, not sure, that can fix your
> paritions without having to ruin your OS and start over.
> If you want to reformat and start over repartition it
> there, if not try to find the utility to fix your current
> partition.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >My hard 20gb hrad drive was partitioned but I can only
> access one part leaving me with 16gb losing 4gb Can I get
> back th other 4gb?
> >.
> >

Alex Nichol
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Re: hard drive was partitioned
Posted: 01-21-2004, 02:47 PM
Yves Leclerc wrote:
>No utility comes with XP that allows to repartition without loss of data.
>You need to get a 3rd party utility like Partition Magic by PowerQuest (now
>owned by Symantec).
Or BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full
functional trial)


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