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Old 7th Oct 2004, 16:23
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Disk "unallocated space"

Hi folks,

Anyone know the answer to this?

I recently installed a new HD in the home-made PC. It's an 80GB drive, with 5 partitions and 40Gb of unallocated space.

I want to use the unallocated space to either create a new partition, or increase the size on an existing one. However, when I use the disk management tool (XP Pro), the "New partition..." option is greyed out. I can't see any way to get at this unallocated space.

I tried PartitionMagic 8 and that couldn't seem to do anything with it either.

The other partitions on the disk are:

C: Basic NTFS 9.77Gb
J: Basic NTFS 3.73Gb
K: Basic NTFS 996 Mb
L: Basic NTFS 20.05Gb

The letter sequence is a bit odd because the missing letters were the partitions on another HDD which I removed, as it was failing.

Any ideas? I hate to waste 40Gb...
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