Newbie question about FAT32 / NTFS disk space allocation....

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From: stljeffbb (stljeffbb_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: 18 Jun 2004 09:19:49 -0700

I've been messing around with a 20 Gig hard drive for my Dell Insriron
8000 (laptop)....The CD-Rom is kind of touchy and only works about 1
in 20 times, so when I have been able, I use an external CD-RW.....

I started with MS-Dos 6.22 and installed Win98SE from there......for
these, my primary hard disk uses only 2 GB out of the 20 available in
the FAT32 system. Now that I've instaled XP, I would like to use all
20 GB for the C drive.

How can I go about doing this? I've poked around the help files and
tried creating a new partition with the unused space, but it assigns a
different letter for that space and I do not prefer that (2 GB is kind
of small for my applications on C). I'm hoping it won't mess with my
use of an external CD drive, and I don't think it will, but offered it
up for background info.

Thanks for any help in advance,

Jeff