Deleting a partion

[kathi]

Hi,

 

Hope someone can advise me.

 

I have a Mitac 8080 on which I took off Vista and reinstalled XP.

 

Before I took Visa off I made a simple partion incase I needed to install XP on the same drive (C:)

 

As it happens I managed to install XP on the C: drive OK but now I cannot work out how to remove the partion I made earlier. It does not have an assigned letter it just says '727 MB Unallocated'.

 

I tried to right click to select delete but no delete option there.

I tried to use cmd prompt and DISKMANAGEMENT but dont think this did anything either!

 

Any ideas?

 

Many thanks for your help.

 

Kathi

[Armageddon]

Hi kathi have a read of the following Mircrosoft Support article on disk management and reallocating disk space How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP

[kathi]

Thanks,

 

I did read this a while ago or (something very similar) and could not produce the desired results. Everything it suggested was not working as it said it should, but I will read it and try again!

 

Thank you for getting back to me.

 

I am sooooo tired of working through all these problems!

 

Kind regards

 

Kathi

[Match]

I'll cut the reading down for you ;)

 

How to delete a partition or a logical drive

 

To delete a partition or logical drive:

1. In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want to delete, and then click Delete Partition or Delete Logical Drive.
   
2. Click Yes when you are prompted to delete the partition or logical drive. The partition or logical drive is deleted.
   

Important

• When you delete a partition or a logical drive, all the data on that partition or logical drive, and the partition or the logical drive, are deleted.
  
• You cannot delete the system partition, boot partition, or a partition that contains the active paging (swap) file.
  
• You cannot delete an extended partition unless the extended partition is empty. All logical drives in the extended partition must be deleted before you can delete the extended partition.
  

 

Your next question will probablt be how do I get the disk space back or extend the remaining partition

 

How to Extend a Simple or Spanned Volume

 

To increase the size of a simple volume or a spanned volume after you create it, you can extend it by adding unallocated free space on the same (or another) dynamic disk.

 

To extend a simple volume or a spanned volume:

1. In Disk Management, right-click the simple or spanned volume to be extended, and then click Extend Volume.
   
2. In the Extend Volume Wizard, click Next.
   
3. On the Select Disks page, do the following:
   
   • Click to select the disk (or disks) onto which the volume will be extended, and then click Add.
      
     Verify that the disk or disks onto which you want to extend the volume are listed in the Selected dynamic disks box.
      
     -and-
     
   • In the Size box, specify the amount of unallocated disk space that you want to add, and then Next.
     

[*]Confirm that the options that you selected are correct, and then click Finish.

The volume is extended and appears in the appropriate dynamic disk or disks in the Disk Management window.

 

NOTE:

• You can only extend NTFS volumes, or volumes that are not yet formatted with a file system.
  
• A volume can be extended only if there is enough available disk space.
  
• If you upgraded from Windows 2000 to Windows XP, you can extend simple and spanned volumes only if the volume is created on a dynamic disk in Windows XP. Simple or spanned volumes that result from a basic to dynamic disk conversion in Windows 2000 cannot be extended.
  
• You cannot extend the system or boot volume.