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Combining Partitions in Windows 2000

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forumJunkie

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Hi all,

Once again the NEWB in me strikes again. I'm running a Windows 2000 machine, but after pushing next a little too much without reading I took my 120 GB drive and accidentally partitioned it in a very weird way.

About 20 gigs is set for C:\ and I freaked out thinking I lost a 100 gigs but I'm checking the Disk Management in the Administrative Tools and I have 100 gigs UNALLOCATED. How do I combine these two so I can have a full 120 gig C:\.... I really don't want to use Partition Magic and thought Windows might have something built in to help me out.... but with my limited knowledge that was to no avail but it seems AT-er's always helps =)

Any words of advice??
 
Nothing built into Windows.

Why not partition the rest for data, etc. That way if you reformat Windows you don't have to reload all the stuff you have been saving to the other partition.
 
hrm... you have a point there. Thanks for the tip. I guess I'll have to use my buddy partition magic. It's just that I've heard some horror stories lol. Thank MedicBob!
 
Originally posted by: forumJunkie
hrm... you have a point there. Thanks for the tip. I guess I'll have to use my buddy partition magic. It's just that I've heard some horror stories lol. Thank MedicBob!
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Assuming Win2k post-SP1 (you should be running SP4) just use diskpart.exe to extend the partition - works on basic and dynamic disks, and takes just a second or two - it's free too. Google for it.
 
I'd keep the two partitions seperate like MedicBob said. Just use the disk management utility to allocate it to NTFS.
 
Originally posted by: dclive
Originally posted by: forumJunkie
hrm... you have a point there. Thanks for the tip. I guess I'll have to use my buddy partition magic. It's just that I've heard some horror stories lol. Thank MedicBob!
Click to expand...

Assuming Win2k post-SP1 (you should be running SP4) just use diskpart.exe to extend the partition - works on basic and dynamic disks, and takes just a second or two - it's free too. Google for it.
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Diskpart seems like the way to go! And yes Medic Bob is a genius!! 🙂 Thank you Team Anandtech you guys did it again!
 
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