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Deleting an Extended Partition
Name: theSeraph Date: April 3, 2008 at 05:14:29 Pacific OS: Vista Ultimate CPU/Ram: N/A Product: Dell Inspiron 6400
Comment:
I've been trying to get rid of an extended partition that was 14 gigs of space locked inside of it that I want back - but have been unable to do so. When I try to delete the partition from Disk Management, it tells me "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this action"
Can anyone help me get rid of this thing? I just want those 15 gigs back in my primary partition.
Name: XpUser Date: April 3, 2008 at 05:55:13 Pacific
Reply:
I hope you know what you are doing. Dell PC Restore files reside on the extended partition. Removing Dell PC Restore deletes the PC Restore utility from your computer. After you have removed Dell PC Restore, you will not be able to use it to restore your computer's operating system.
i_Xp/VistaUser
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Response Number 3
Name: jefro Date: April 3, 2008 at 14:07:37 Pacific
Reply:
Delete shouldn't say that.
"There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this action"
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.
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Response Number 4
Name: effient Date: April 3, 2008 at 18:02:50 Pacific
Reply:
Why not transfer some of the junk stuff from your primary partition to backup HD, rather than messing with the Reovery Partition?
XpUser is right.
You could use HDDool to see what other partition configuration that BIOS is hiding (HPA).
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Response Number 5
Name: theSeraph Date: April 3, 2008 at 20:44:22 Pacific
Reply:
I'm not sure where all this stuff about recovery partitions came about, but I'm more than a novice user when it comes to this stuff - I have a Windows install disk and a drivers disk - so really thats all I'll need if I want to put XP back on.
Beside that, I'm not concerned about losing the recovery partition - its off in its own entity BESIDE my extended partition which I created myself using partition magic.
I'll try these tools shortly and post any results.
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