Partition woes

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:09 am

Okies, so XP started to act gay and I decided to rollback to one of the ghost images I had laying around (first time trying this tho

). On the windows drive I have a partition for XP and for games. During recovery the current active partition would not work obviously since it was in use (and I tried rebooting, which acronis trueimage recommended and it was gonna do something during boot but it took ages so I cancelled).

So back in windows I made a new partition, set is as primary and recovered the image onto that one. The old partition that still had windows (but now wasn't primary) I deleted it and made a new one. Wanted the space back so I did 'increase free space', picked DZW, taking space from DZF. After reboot that shit didn't work though. Stayed the same as in the image.

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That extra 7 megs of unallocated space is because when I made DZF there was a minimum limit of 7mb for some reason.

Bottom line I wanna merge the space into DZW so I have 10gb for XP... and I tried partition magic, but it wouldn't even load the app, complained of 'drive letter not set' or something.

Is there another way of merging partitions, via dos mode maybe?

Post by **axbaby** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:44 pm

Recovery Console wields more dangerous power than you get from clicking the XP Command Prompt icon.
From the RC prompt, you can create and delete partitions (diskpart),
repair the master boot record (fixmbr), write a new partition boot sector to the system partition (fixboot), start and stop system services and device drivers (enable/disable), set the current directory to the systemroot directory of the system you're logged onto (systemroot), and more—in addition to the more soft-edged (dir, copy, chkdsk) variety of tools. (See the full list in the sidebar.)

type diskpart ? and you will see your options

google xp diskpart
info taken from here http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/ ... 02208&rl=1

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:37 pm

I believe diskpart only has create, delete, and copy.

Post by **axbaby** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:02 pm

delete/partition the works .. no idea why people like a zillion partitions.
i find it annoying as hell having 10 drive letters.

hi jeep

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:06 pm

Hi ax.

No I don't wanna delete it!

I would if I was gonna format, but I'm lazy to start reinstalling everything.

Post by **axbaby** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 5:22 am

sorry i don't know the answer.
hopefully one of these smart peeps can help you out.

cookie to however helps the young lad

Post by **Tormentius** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:01 am

You can't use Windows tools to merge partitions. The only way a dynamic volume can be extended is if it was created originally as dynamic (which isn't ever the case with the system volume).

Using a third party app like the latest version of partition magic is the best bet. Have you checked their knowledge base for the error you received yet?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:21 am

axbaby wrote:no idea why people like a zillion partitions.
i find it annoying as hell having 10 drive letters.

it's the same people that can't create a proper directory.