hi guys, I have 20G harddrive space, when I fdisked my harddrive, for some reason I only put 10G for my C drive...And now I realized that rest of the 10G is just sitting there, How can I add the 10G to to my C drive without reformating my harddrive?? Any Ideas?

use the rest of the space as data/backup space. if you have the programs Norton Ghost or Drive image, you can use the D drive as target for their output. use fdisk to create the partition, create an extended DOS partition and then a dos drive in that partition. I never use only one large partition on any of my pcs so that I can have another partition available for backups, etc. Al

Use fdisk to create an extended partition on your drive. Then create a logical drive within that extended partition, using the full available space in the extended partition. This will give you a drive letter. Then exit fdisk and format the new drive.

Ooops, sorry. I just realized I posted pretty well what Al posted in the last half of his response.

I think what Mary wants to do is create one 20 gig partition. Mary - Since you said "How can I add the 10G to to my C drive without reformating my harddrive??", I'm going to assume you've already installed Windows, and now you only have access to half your drive. There are 3rd party software products, like Partition Majic, that allow you to change partitions without losing data or reformatting. The other thing you could do is, if you happen to have another HD and have a copy of Norton's "Ghost" program, you could hook up a 2nd HD as a slave, ghost your existing HD to that HD, then Ghost it right back to the disk you have in there now. Ghost will automatically "stretch" the partition out to the full 20 gigs of your drive when you ghost back to the drive that's in there now. A 3rd and free option is find out what brand HD you have. Western Digital and Maxtor, ect, have free downloadable utilities that let you copy your HD onto another one. You could do that, then of course copy it right back to your 20 gig drive and, again, it will automatically stretch the partition out to the full 20 gigs. Lost yet? Sorry...aside from starting all over with fdisk and reformatting, I can't think of any other way of doing it aside from these above.

Mary, I, like Al, never use a full drive for just the O/S. I'll make a 6:10 Gb partition for the O/S and divide the rest of the drive into logical drives for data storage and backups. So if C: gets jumbled to the point of formating and re-loading, you have the option of not loosing everything in the process. If what you want is to "join" the two areas into one, have a look at this posting; http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/150238.html

I also think you should create a second drive. You might not be aware that you can install programs on drives other than C:. I install all new programs on my E: drive. That way, if you have to format and reinstall windows, all your data is not wiped out.