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Pelagius
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:16 am Post subject: Recapture unallocated drive space |
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Anyone know of a good freeware program that will enable me to recapture the unallocated space left due to deleting a partition. I don't need to recover the data, just the space.
XP-SP2
NTFS
Physical drive is not the system or MBR drive.
Thanks in advance. |
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Kt
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:17 am Post subject: Re: Recapture unallocated drive space |
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Pelagius wrote: Anyone know of a good freeware program that will enable me to recapture the unallocated space left due to deleting a partition. I don't need to recover the data, just the space.
XP-SP2
NTFS
Physical drive is not the system or MBR drive.
Thanks in advance.
fdisk??? |
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Pelagius
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:19 am Post subject: Re: Recapture unallocated drive space |
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Helena` wrote: fdisk???
I want to merge the unallocated space with an existing partition. I don't think Fdisk will help in this regard. If I'm wrong let me know. |
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Kt
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:22 am Post subject: Re: Recapture unallocated drive space |
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Pelagius wrote: Helena` wrote: fdisk???
I want to merge the unallocated space with an existing partition. I don't think Fdisk will help in this regard. If I'm wrong let me know.
Oh, so you want to grow the existing partition?
I use Partition Magic for that, I don'tknow if it's freeware or what, you can always pirate it... |
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Pelagius
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:37 am Post subject: Re: Recapture unallocated drive space |
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Helena` wrote: Pelagius wrote: Helena` wrote: fdisk???
I want to merge the unallocated space with an existing partition. I don't think Fdisk will help in this regard. If I'm wrong let me know.
Oh, so you want to grow the existing partition?
I use Partition Magic for that, I don'tknow if it's freeware or what, you can always pirate it...
Thanks. I was hoping to avoid spending 70.00 for Partition Magic but I may have to. I won't pirate software. I'm a software developer and a capitalist so I won't pirate other people's work. |
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Kt
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Recapture unallocated drive space |
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Pelagius wrote: Helena` wrote: Pelagius wrote: Helena` wrote: fdisk???
I want to merge the unallocated space with an existing partition. I don't think Fdisk will help in this regard. If I'm wrong let me know.
Oh, so you want to grow the existing partition?
I use Partition Magic for that, I don'tknow if it's freeware or what, you can always pirate it...
Thanks. I was hoping to avoid spending 70.00 for Partition Magic but I may have to. I won't pirate software. I'm a software developer and a capitalist so I won't pirate other people's work.
Oh gods Partition Magic is cool, but it's not worth 70$... |
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Pelagius
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:44 am Post subject: Re: Recapture unallocated drive space |
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Helena` wrote: Oh gods Partition Magic is cool, but it's not worth 70$...
Hence my search for freeware....:) |
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Kt
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:46 am Post subject: Re: Recapture unallocated drive space |
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Pelagius wrote: Helena` wrote: Oh gods Partition Magic is cool, but it's not worth 70$...
Hence my search for freeware....:)
Hmmm, I will look around, maybe I have something on my techCD that is freeware... |
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Pelagius
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: Re: Recapture unallocated drive space |
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Helena` wrote: Pelagius wrote: Helena` wrote: Oh gods Partition Magic is cool, but it's not worth 70$...
Hence my search for freeware....:)
Hmmm, I will look around, maybe I have something on my techCD that is freeware...
Thanks! You're doing wonders for East-West relations... :lol: |
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Kt
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:55 am Post subject: |
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http://www.ranish.com/part/
This MIGHT work...
or even better
maybe you can download knoppix and use QTParted
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
The good thing about downloading knoppix not only is that it is free and legal, but you can use it for other computer maintainence tasks in the future...
A little disclaimer, resizing partitions is quite easy and i've done it many times, but if you blow up your computer it's not my fault :-o |
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FCTE
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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There is no better program than Partition Magic for a Windows machine. Kneel before it!!
QParted for Linux. |
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Pelagius
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Helena` wrote: A little disclaimer, resizing partitions is quite easy and i've done it many times, but if you blow up your computer it's not my fault :-o
Duely noted. I appreciate your assistance! |
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Kt
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FCTE wrote: There is no better program than Partition Magic for a Windows machine. Kneel before it!!
QParted for Linux.
QTParted will run on knoppix which is bootable linux on CD or DVD, we used to use knoppix all the time at the computer repair shop I used to work at, and those were mostly windows computers anyways... |
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David
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Here's several that will do the job and they are free to try but most you have to buy if you want to keep them.
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=partition&tg=dl-2001 |
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Pelagius
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:11 am Post subject: |
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David wrote: Here's several that will do the job and they are free to try but most you have to buy if you want to keep them.
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=partition&tg=dl-2001
Great. Thanks much. |
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