I have a 250 G.B. Samsung internial H.D. . It has 3 partitions the first one shown in Disk Management is only 47MB framed in Blue and it says Health, the second partition is my one that holds the O/S WindowsXP Pro SP2 MCE 2005 ,its a 227.55 G.B. NTFS partition and it says Healthy System ,surrrounded in blue frame also the third is a partition that previously held Dells fatory restore that set your PC back to the way it was the day you recieved it from Dell . I deleted the contents of that partition ,its 5.22 G.B.'s in size surrounded by a dark green border for extended partition .However the contents are a light green and it says free space . Is there any way to add this 5.22GB's to my main drive C ,otherwise its just wasted space ! I also have a externial USB 2.0 drive 320 GB's Seagate Free Agent H.D. so I could live without the 5.22B's ,however if possible I would like to add it to drive C ? Thank You Nick

Why would you delete the Recovery Partition? Nick, you've been around here long enough to know the answer to your question is to use a Partitioning program. Partition Magic is just one. You can Google for others, or maybe other users have had success with different ones and will post the program names here. LIR

Poor you Nick. Wait until the day come when you find you need to restore the hard drive to factory condition and you couldn't.... i_Xp/VistaUser

Yeah, I don't get that move at all. Why are you so concerned about a puny 5GB out of a 250GB HDD? And as stated above, you will no longer be able to do a Dell restore if it ever becomes necessary. Try EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition: http://www.partition-tool.com/perso... EDIT: this whole 5.22GB partition issue seemed very familiar to me so I did some searching of the forums. You asked similar questions about this back in 2007 in the XP forum.

Thank you to all that replied . I should have told you in the originial post that I could not access the factory restore due to a misplaced administrator password from when I first recieved the PC . I due to a serious stop error that made my system unworkable I performed a re-install of the O/S WindowsXP MCE 2005 I updated all of my previous Windows Updates and reinstalled my anti-virus software and downloaded all of the virus definitions,also installed the programs I wanted that came with my system from Dell ,Sonic DVD burning app etc. . I was first trying to perform the Dell Factory Restore ,however as I stated without the adminstrator password I could not access it ! Dell support who I contacted becasue I have a 3 year extended warranty ,said the only thing I could do was perform a fresh install of the O/S . I had all the disk DEll sent me with my PC and the re-install of the O/S went fine and my PC is running fine ,however oncein awhile I have questions or a little software problem appears . I believe all of the replies are correct that I need a some kind of software partition application to change the H.D. ! Thanks Nick

I supplied a link to a free partitioning program in my other response. I've used it myself & it works well. Similar to Partition Magic.

Thanks Jam , I also need to not forget to proof read my post/replies . Reading my own reply hurt my eyes ,so I can imagine what it would do to someone who does'nt already know what Iam saying ? All apoligies, honest Iam not a complete idiot ! Thanks Again , Nick