[ Solved ]Sata to Pata Adapter.

[Bringe]

Hi KenB.

Many thanks for your reply.

Ime afraid I dont have access to win7 or vista, I only have xp:(

 

Bringe.

[KenB]

Hi again

 

I am not sure that XP can configure the "unallocated" space without additional software. ( It is a long time since I used it :) )

 

Go back to Disk Management

Right click on the "unallocated" space on Disk 1

 

If "New Simple Volume" is an option ....select this.

Use the default for the size of the volume as this should be the maximum.

 

Follow the screen prompts .....make sure that you use NTFS for the file system.

You can use the default for the drive letter.

 

If this isn't possible with XP we will have to look at using some software.

[Bringe]

Hi KenB.

Thanks for your reply. I did what you asked on both parts of the drive and as you can see there is no "new simple volume" listed.:confused2:[ATTACH=CONFIG]1349.vB5-legacyid=2404[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]1350.vB5-legacyid=2405[/ATTACH]

[KenB]

I did wonder if XP could perform the task we wanted ......apparently not.

 

Please download EaseUs from here - click here

You want the FREE version.

 

Make sure that your external hard drive is connected.

 

Install EaseUs and run it.

 

Click on EaseUs Partition Master.

EaseUs will identify the partitions on the 2 drives.

You do NOT want to alter anything on the C: drive.

 

Click on the external drive [ probably labelled Disk 2 ]

 

The following is taken from the EaseUs instruction manual:

 

Move & Resize Partition

The Move & Resize Partition function allows the user to modifythe size and position of partitions on the hard disk keeping allon-disk information intact.

In order to Resize/Move a partition the user should take thefollowing steps:

1. Select a partition on the Disk Map. ( This is the visual image of the drive )

2. Call the Resize/Move Partition dialog to define appropriatesettings. There are several ways to do it:

Select in the Main menu: Partitions > Resize/Move partition.

Call the popup menu for the selected partition (right click of themouse button) on the Disk Map or on the List of Partitions, thenselect the menu item: Resize/Move partition.

3. Define parameters of the operation with the Resize/Movepartition dialog.

Partition preview. The disk map displays the resulting disk layoutafter the move/resize operation is completed.

Partition size. Define the size (in Mb) of the modified partition.

Unallocate Space Before. Define the position (in Mb) of thepartition relative to the beginning of the available range of diskspace.

Unallocate Space After. Define the amount of trailing free space(in Mb) at the end of the available range of disk space.

Partition size and position may also be defined by using thedrag-and-drop technique. To do that, just carry out the required operation on the Disk Map. The virtual operations are to be available.

When resizing a FAT16 partition beyond the 2GB limit (maximum filesystem size), the partition will be automatically converted to FAT32.

4. The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation.

 

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I hope this helps :)

[Bringe]

Hi KenB.

Many thanks for your reply and advice. I downloaded and ran the program as you said, it looked a bit daunting at first, but I read some of the help topics and it didn't seem so bad.

I just moved the parameter bars to cover the whole drive (186gb) and clicked the button at the top to make it happen and, it worked:D

Ime not sure if I should have formatted it afterwards, but it seems ok even after a restart. It was still named "new volume" but I just renamed it "local disk"

Once again, Many thanks for your, and Plastic NeV's help along the way here. I think that this thread could be put to bed now, but ime sure I will be back here with another problem sometime soon.

Many Thanks.

 

Bringe.

[KenB]

Hi

 

Glad that you were able to work out what to do :)

[Plastic Nev]

Thanks from me too for the feedback and glad we could help.

Once you learn the ins and outs of that EasUS partition manager, it is a wonderful program for sorting partitions out as to how you want them.

 

Nev.