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Got an old Compaq Presario laptop with a 6Gb hard drive partitioned into 2 and 4 respectively; it came with Win98, but I boobed and loaded WinXP, which seems to have eaten up all the 2Gb operating system drive. This is causing me a lot of heartburn. Without getting too technical, would it be a good idea to remove the partition and if so, how? Or do I need to add extra memory and if so, how? Thanx in advance from a non-geek.
Background Noise
9th Feb 2005, 11:59
There are far more qualified contibutors here than me but here's my opinion.
Memory and hard disc space are different. 6gig is small for a hard disk these days but useable. There is software which will manage partitions but I don't know if it can sort out existing partitions, ie ones that it has not created in the first place. You could reformat and partition the disc using fdisk into a single partition (and wipe everything that is currently on there) and then re-install XP.
There are a couple of MS support articles here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q255867/
Many thanks for the tips and web-links - will check them out, but my German ain't that sharp!
Background Noise
9th Feb 2005, 18:00
They don't appear in german to me - or are you referring to my computer gobbledegook?
Sorted, many thanks for the tips
Jhieminga
11th Feb 2005, 10:21
For anyone with partitioning troubles, look for Partition Magic. Brilliant piece of software! Includes the option to resize partitions without losing data.