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Old 06-09-2004, 06:00 PM
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Partitioning question

Hi guys i'm new in here, i got a question, i know xp now has a drives management tool (compmgmt.msc), and i'd like to know:

Here's my situation:
I have a linux partition one swap and another normal linux (both required to run linux) i want to delete them completely, and make windows use the remaining of the HD space

I have a 40gb HD, 30gb for windows xp and 10gb for linux
now i want to remove the 10gb one, then change the 30gb one into a full 40gb, understand ? I know i can use Partition magic to do that but well it just didnt work well last time i did, maybe because i hadn't defraged my C: (i will defrag this time =) )

I want to know if Computer management tool (compmgmt.msc) do that ? like resizing partitions ?

Thanks for the help

My specs:
1) WinXP pro build 2600
2) P4 1.5ghz, 256mb ram, 40gb HD.

NuCl34R
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Old 06-09-2004, 06:44 PM
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in the disk managment console,...it will show the linux partitions as unpartitioned space, you can right click them and select create partiton and the wizard will come up,...it is pretty easy from there. may have to repair the boot.ini after you are done to get xp to boot.
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Old 06-09-2004, 06:56 PM
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in the disk managment console,...it will show the linux partitions as unpartitioned space, you can right click them and select create partiton and the wizard will come up,...it is pretty easy from there. may have to repair the boot.ini after you are done to get xp to boot.


Ok but won't that just create a new partition ? i want my old win partition to be resized into a bigger one not like replace linux partitions by another windows drive. And what kind of "repair" will i have to apply to boot.ini ? i used fixmbr to get my old MBR back so it just boot into windows without asking, so i gues just deleting linux partitions wont change anything to windows ?
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