[Novalug] deleting unallocated partition

[Ken Kauffman]

Once you make the partition larger, make sure to run chkdsk on it.

K

On 12/9/07, Tod Larson <tod.larson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I to recommend the gparted live cd.  But, like Julia said I've never
> made an NTFS partition larger.  You might want to test on another
> machine if you have one.
>
> On Dec 9, 2007 9:53 AM, Julia Christianson <juliac at patriot.net> wrote:
> > gparted can reliably *shrink* and NTFS partition -- I've never used it
> > to grow one (actually, never occurred to me that anyone would want
> > to), so I can't testify to that, but it's been rock-solid for me for
> > several years now, so it ought to be ok.  There's a bootable .iso
> > (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) which makes a live CD or a live USB.
> >  Has a GUI interface now, dead simple to use.
> >
> > -- Julia
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Gatanas wrote:
> > > My father has a Windows XP Home Edition computer with a drive divided
> > > into 3 partitions:
> > >
> > > Partition 1     35 MB, FAT                    Want to keep.
> > > Partition 2    19 GB, NTFS, *C: drive*      Want to keep.
> > > Partition 3    19 GB, unallocated          Want to remove so the C:
> > > drive can be 38 GB
> > >
> > > Have already used the both the My Computer, Disk Management as well as
> > > the "diskpart" command from the command prompt to try to delete
> Partition 3
> > >
> > > Any suggestions, as he only has 1% drive space left on his C: drive. I
> > > had heard of trying to use the "chkdsk /F" command from the command
> > > prompt. Will this get rid of the unwanted Partition 3?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
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