Unallocated space

[ern]

I just put in a 320gb hdd that reads as 129gb but I have 170gb of unallocated space. I installed windows xp pro from a disk that had no service packs but now I have sp3. How do I go about merging the unallocated space into my primary partion?

I may even want to use 70gb for storage and put the other 100gb into the primary partion.

 

[ern]

Anyone?

 

[Farva]

GParted

 

[dbwillis]

A few ways you can do this, which one you choose depends on your time available and PC knowledge....

A - GParted as mentioned above
B - slipstream SP2 or SP3 into your XP CD, then reinstall with it, making the partition sizes you want
C - use Partition Magic (cost $$)
D - take the HDD out, put it into another XP system that has Sp2+ and make new partitions and format them, thenput it back into your PC and reinstall XP onto the partitions that are now there in the sizes you want

 

[ern]

A few ways you can do this, which one you choose depends on your time available and PC knowledge....

A - GParted as mentioned above
B - slipstream SP2 or SP3 into your XP CD, then reinstall with it, making the partition sizes you want
C - use Partition Magic (cost $$)
D - take the HDD out, put it into another XP system that has Sp2+ and make new partitions and format them, thenput it back into your PC and reinstall XP onto the partitions that are now there in the sizes you want

A- I have this and cant seem to find where you can merge 2 partitions?
B- How would I go about doing this?
C- No thanks, I wanna be cheap lol tho it looks like good software
D- I just did a fresh install like 2 days ago so I dont wanna do that again.

 

[dbwillis]

"A few ways you can do this, which one you choose depends on your time available and PC knowledge"
A - learn Linux commands
B - use nLite (google for the simple instructions
C - hear ya
D - oh well

Options B and D require you to reinstall XP using either the slipstreamed CD or the preformatted HDD