windows ME partition way too small - help?

[Slapus]

i'm using Windows ME and just formatted and re-installed ME, however my partition is only 1gb and my hdd is 30gb. is there anyway to re-size my partition from windows? if not how do i do it from outside windows? thanks in advance

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

woah i'm surprised that ME fits in 1GB.

you could use partition magic to resize it, or if you want to be daring, you could use defrag, then use fdisk to destroy the partition and then create a 30GB one and theoretically your data would be there....but thats something that i would never try although it seems to work in most cases.

are there any other partitions????

and where does it say its only 1GB? try doing a scandisk, also do a dir C: and post the results, just the part where it says the size and whatnot.

example:
C:\>dir c:
Volume in drive C is Win2KPro
Volume Serial Number is E098-BBFD

Directory of C:\

blabalkjeflkdsjsaklfjasldkfjlasj files


1 File(s) 679,008 bytes
8 Dir(s) 1,884,016,640 bytes free

 

[Slapus]

well now that i look at it it's 2gbs but that's still way off
anyway i did dir of c: and...

Volume in Drive C: has no label
Volume Serial Number is 2948-1C02

blahblahblah

4 files 194 bytes
3 dirs 1,519,878,144 bytes

also i checked out my partition information with fdisk and got this:
Partition: C:1
Status: A
Type: Pri DOS
Volume Label: (blank)
Mbytes: 2047
System: FAT16
Usage: 7%
Total space is 28624 mbytes

i checked out partition magic but it says the trial version doesnt actually change your partition and i don't feel like spending $70 on this

 

[AKA]

1gb is plenty for WinMe, it only takes up a little over 200mb as I remember it.

My D: partition is only 1.5gb for WinMe and has been for over a year now and its only taking up 800mb right now. I install all my apps & games into my G: partition.

Partition magic is the only program I know of that will let you resize the partition without losing the current data in that partition.