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Extend Volume Set on C:\
Name: T. Erik Date: March 29, 2000 at 04:23:22 Pacific
Comment:
I've installed Win NT on a 10 GB disk, but I couldn't get my C-drive larger than 2GB under partioning, and now I can't seem to extend its volum by using the Disk Administrator-tool in NT. This one telles my that I can't extend volume on a disk that contains the NT-files. Are there any way around this? I now have about 6 GB of free space I would like to have on my C-drive (not a second D-drive), but can't fix this.
I also been advised to have about 1GB FAT and about 800MB swapfiles for speed purposes. The FAT I manage, but how exactely do I set up a swapfile-disk...?
Name: john westerman Date: March 29, 2000 at 04:32:48 Pacific
Reply:
Unless there is a utility such as partition magic, you cannot alter a partition that way in NT. When you install NT, run FDISK and then delete all partitions. Insert the boot disks and go through the installation. It will ask you to create a partition to install to. If you want an NTFS partition (recommended) then youcan specify up to a 4 Gb first partition (not extendable) then the rest of the drive as a second partition.
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