[Novalug] deleting unallocated partition

Julia Christianson juliac@patriot.net
Sun Dec 9 09:53:45 EST 2007


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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