I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to do a
dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so I could run
the many incompatible programs that would not work on vista. I did the
partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to run my programs. This
worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard drive swelled up and almost
filled my c drive. I got info from the vpc group to compress the virtual
hard drive. I could not perform this function because there was not enough
space on the c drive. I used the vista drive management tool to format drive
e (the drive I partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard drive space
it shows the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My question is how do I
re-assign this formatted space to drive c.

Thanks!!

Hi,

Run diskmgmt.msc from the start/search line. First, is the former E:
immediately after C:? If the answer is yes, then simply right click on C:
and choose expand. If not, meaning it's located anywhere else in relation to
C:, you will need third party partitioning software to manipulate and slide
the volumes until it is immediately after C:.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Tom" wrote in message
...
I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to do a
dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so I could run
the many incompatible programs that would not work on vista. I did the
partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to run my programs. This
worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard drive swelled up and almost
filled my c drive. I got info from the vpc group to compress the virtual
hard drive. I could not perform this function because there was not enough
space on the c drive. I used the vista drive management tool to format
drive e (the drive I partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard drive
space it shows the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My question is
how do I re-assign this formatted space to drive c.

Thanks!!

Tom wrote:
I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to
do a dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so
I could run the many incompatible programs that would not work on
vista. I did the partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to
run my programs. This worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard
drive swelled up and almost filled my c drive. I got info from the
vpc group to compress the virtual hard drive. I could not perform
this function because there was not enough space on the c drive. I
used the vista drive management tool to format drive e (the drive I
partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard drive space it shows
the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My question is how do I
re-assign this formatted space to drive c.
Thanks!!
===================================
Maybe the following freebie would be worth a try:

EASEUS Partition Manager
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm


--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Thank You!! I used disk manager and my unwanted partition is gone. I
expanded my c partion into the unallocated space. Worked like a charm, no
other problems. Thanks Rick and John for replying!!

Tom
"Rick Rogers" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Run diskmgmt.msc from the start/search line. First, is the former E:
immediately after C:? If the answer is yes, then simply right click on C:
and choose expand. If not, meaning it's located anywhere else in relation
to C:, you will need third party partitioning software to manipulate and
slide the volumes until it is immediately after C:.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Tom" wrote in message
...
I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to do a
dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so I could
run the many incompatible programs that would not work on vista. I did the
partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to run my programs. This
worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard drive swelled up and almost
filled my c drive. I got info from the vpc group to compress the virtual
hard drive. I could not perform this function because there was not enough
space on the c drive. I used the vista drive management tool to format
drive e (the drive I partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard
drive space it shows the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My
question is how do I re-assign this formatted space to drive c.

Thanks!!

"John Inzer" wrote:

Tom wrote:
I have a gateway laptop running vista home. I was originally going to
do a dual boot system and run xp on a partition on the hard drive so
I could run the many incompatible programs that would not work on
vista. I did the partitions and then I decided to use VirtualPC to
run my programs. This worked great for months, then virtualPC's hard
drive swelled up and almost filled my c drive. I got info from the
vpc group to compress the virtual hard drive. I could not perform
this function because there was not enough space on the c drive. I
used the vista drive management tool to format drive e (the drive I
partitioned for the xp os) Now when I check hard drive space it shows
the formatted drive e as unallocated space. My question is how do I
re-assign this formatted space to drive c.
Thanks!!
===================================
Maybe the following freebie would be worth a try:

EASEUS Partition Manager
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm


--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk