Re: what have I done!

From: Rich Barry (rbarry_at_NOTsocal.rr.com)
Date: 04/10/04


Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:57:05 -0700


       Ian, I just did something similar and got things all screwed up also.
Not a good idea to mix partition
        managers. I had to resort to fdisk and start over. You can get an
excellent boot disk at
        www.bootdisk.com I just deleted all the partitions and created new
ones.
"Ian" <ipember@removethisfirst.msn.com> wrote in message
news:u0l2TvoHEHA.3356@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Yes I'm a fool! I used Acronis to partition a drive which then wouldn't
> allow me to delete the new partitioned drive. Using disk management I
> managed to delete the annoying new F: drive. Now my C drive states I have
> 28.8Gb capacity. Before I did all this, it said I had around 37GB. I am
> sure the F drive I deleted had the remaining space. How can I get this
> space back?
>
> thanks
>
> Ian
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