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Adding an unallocated partition to the C drive
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| Icone |
Hey all,
Not really a 'musical' question, though it can come in handy for my music straight away :)
My C drive (system/boot) is 250GB, though when installing Windows 2000 Pro, it only 'sees' max 137GB at first (being only at Service Pack 1). When upgrading to Service Pack 4 and installing the Maxtor 'big drive enabler', the remaining GB's came available, though unallocated to the rest of the C drive...
Now I was wondering how you could add the unallocated partition to the C drive? Or isn't this possible?
I haven't installed much on this pc yet, so was wondering if the PC kept recognising the full 250GB after making a new Windows 2000 Pro install after a format?
Any help appreciated ;)
Thanks!
Wim |
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| djsphere |
| i think partition magic can do it |
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| DigiNut |
A fresh Windows 2000 Pro installation without the drive patches will *not* recognize the full drive on a reformat/reinstall. This is why you should not use legacy systems; Windows XP SP1 and above have no problem with large disk drives.
In the meantime, Partition Magic or Acronis Disk Director can adjust partition sizes without erasing the data. |
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| music2dance2 |
| Can you use the new space after using the big drive enabler? |
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| Icone |
I installed Windows XP Pro and it does immediately recognize the bigger hard drives.
A friend of mine did need to use the big drive enabler after having installed WinXP Pro though, I guess it isn't included in all versions? |
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| music2dance2 |
| ah right ok cool. Yeah if you have SP 2 it will pick it up |
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| Degradation |
| You may not need Partition Magic. Make all of your disks dynamic in Windows Disk Management and then extend the volume using a software RAID stripe set. It may not let you extend C: if it is your system partition however. |
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