Guest phantom Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Well, I installed Windows 2000 Professional on a 160 GB drive, and the CD only had service pack 2, so long LBA story short I now have about 21 GB of unallocated space at the end of the drive. What should I do with that? Is there any way I can merge it with the rest, or will I just have to make another partition?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Re: 160 GB primary drive "phantom" <beatme101@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1192602181.869696.308020@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > Well, I installed Windows 2000 Professional on a 160 GB drive, and the > CD only had service pack 2, so long LBA story short I now have about > 21 GB of unallocated space at the end of the drive. What should I do > with that? Is there any way I can merge it with the rest, or will I > just have to make another partition? You can merge it with the rest, using a partition manager such as Acronis DiskDirector. My personal preference is to do it exactly the other way: Install Windows in a 20 GByte partition and put all my data on the remaining 140 GByte partition.
Guest Andrew Rossmann Posted October 17, 2007 Posted October 17, 2007 Re: 160 GB primary drive In article <uUl0qZJEIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, I.can@fly.com says... > > "phantom" <beatme101@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1192602181.869696.308020@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > > Well, I installed Windows 2000 Professional on a 160 GB drive, and the > > CD only had service pack 2, so long LBA story short I now have about > > 21 GB of unallocated space at the end of the drive. What should I do > > with that? Is there any way I can merge it with the rest, or will I > > just have to make another partition? > > You can merge it with the rest, using a partition manager such > as Acronis DiskDirector. My personal preference is to do it > exactly the other way: Install Windows in a 20 GByte partition > and put all my data on the remaining 140 GByte partition. The easiest, and safest, is to just create a second partition. Depending on your computer, accessing beyond 120G before the Windows drivers load could cause wraparound and a big mess. -- If there is a no_junk in my address, please REMOVE it before replying! All junk mail senders will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!! http://home.att.net/~andyross
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