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  1. February 21st, 2006, 12:18 PM #1
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    Extending C:\

    I have XP Pro with SP2. My c:\ drive is 7gig. I have 2gig of free unpartitioned space immediatly following the System partition. How can I extend c:\ to utilize that space.

    I have extended other non-System NTFS partitions. But it appears that I can't extend C:\? Anyone have any ideas?

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    You can only do it with a 3rd party utility such as Partition Magic. There isn't any way of doing that from Windows unfortunately.
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    There is one freeware program that can deal with NTFS partitions...

    http://zeleps.com/

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    I'm downloading it now. I'll let you know how it turns out.

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    You can also easily turn the space into a second partition through disk management.
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    Steve, the problem is that I need to add that space to C:

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    After adding it to C:, are you going to create folders to store more stuff? If so, what's the difference between a different drive letter name and a folder name?
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