Re: recover partition

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From: Michael Cecil (macecil_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:41:20 GMT

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:49:43 +1100, "Doug Bell" <dug(don'tUse)@bigpond>
wrote:

>"Michael Cecil" <macecil@comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:9ud160l4qp1nop7q1kuvgitmlanpm3kseb@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:58:37 +1100, "Doug Bell" <dug(don'tUse)@bigpond>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi I have a Dell with 40 Gb HD
>> >partition 1 is 20Gb
>> >the remaining 20 Gb is not partitoned
>> >I want to reload Win2000 and set partition 1 to the full 40 Gb but I can
>not
>> >see how to do this in the setup. It will let me partition the remaining
>20
>> >Gb as Drive D but I what I want to do is set the full 40 Gb as Drive C.
>>
>> If you don't care about the contents of the drive, you could just delete
>> the existing partition, then repartition the entire drive as one large
>> partition and install W2K. Otherwise you'll need a third party
>> partitioning tool to resize the existing partition. Such tools are
>> Partition Magic from Power Quest, Partition Commander from V-Com, Paragon
>> Partition Manager, BootitNG, etc.
>
>I tried to delete the partition but the Win 2000 install would not delete it
>
Well, you can at least download a fully functional copy of BootitNG from
their website <http://www.bootitng.com/bootitng.html> and use it to
delete/shrink/modify your partitions. 

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Michael Cecil
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