Re: Combining Partitions for more space

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From: Bjorn Landemoo (mvp2.REMOVE_at_landemoo.com)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:37:26 +0200

Kurt

We didn't need to ask, he wrote that he had a single 80 Gig AT Hard drive.

Best regards

Bjorn 

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Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)
"Kurt" <kurtl@olypen.com> wrote:
>
>Noone has asked what kind of disk setup you have. Is this just a single
>drive / basic disk? If so, see the other posts. If it is a mirror or striped
>set of any kind (especially if it's a hardware RAID), you may have a larger
>task.
>
>"Frankster" <Frank@REMOVEALLCAPSitcreek.com> wrote in message
>news:yO-dnfMRAttcV9PcRVn-gg@giganews.com...
>> I just setup a new Dell SC400 server (2.8Ghz/1GB RAM, single 80 Gig AT
>Hard
>> drive).  I now have an 80 gig drive with two primary partitions.  C is 60
>> Gig and D is 20 Gig.  D has no data, I simply formatted it.
>>
>> What is the easiest, and hopefully free, way of combining C and D for a C
>> drive with a total of 80 Gig.
>>
>> I wanted to do this from the beginning.  I purchased the Dell with no OS.
>> It came with a startup disk that was Linux.  I attempted to select the
>> largest partition possible for C drive but only got 60 rather than the 80.
>> I assume that was because of some kind of Linux setup limit.  I dunno...
>>
>> -Frank
>>
>>
>

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