Re: Extending a File System Partition for Windows XP

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Hi Kerry,

Thanks for your quick reply.

Do you have any suggestions on any third party solutions
(preferrable free, but any suggestions would do)

Partition Magic or Partition Commander, both about $100. I
understand the concept of "free" but I have never understood
someone wanting to risk their entire system and all of their
data, not to mention days and days of re-setup time on somebody's
freeware, but then, that's my view, YMMD

Kind Regards,

Grant.

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

You can't extend the system partition with the built in tools
in XP. You need third party software.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca


Grant wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to extend the capacity of my File System
Partition (C Drive).

I have tried to use the [extend] function in DiskPart, but
it keeps saying: DiskPart failed to extend the volume.
Please make sure the volume is valid for extending.

It is a Basic disk (not dynamic) and I have read somewhere
that you can't extend the filesystem, but then read in
numerous other places that you can with FSEXTEND.EXE.

I have tried to find this file but can't obtain it, and
everyone says that they have tried to get it from Microsoft
but that they don't know anything about it.

Can anyone help me with this, as when I purchased my
computer it was split into two partitions and the file
system is very small compared to the other partition.

The file system is NTFS

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Kind Regards,

Grant.







--
HP, aka Jerry

Member, Chrysler Employee Motorsport Association (CEMA)
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