IEatHardDrives Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 Ok I installed XP on a new hard drive was going to make a 20GB partition but did 2 GB I turned the computer of an formated installed xp on the drive with no partitons start the system still have the 2GB partition ok was going to just format it but it has hidden system files on it is there any way to transfer this files so i can get rid of this partition. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted October 4, 2005 Report Share Posted October 4, 2005 Reformat and remove the partition. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted October 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Is there another way? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
naraku9333 Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Are you sure you deleted the partitions after the first time? It sounds like you just formatted (formating and partitioning are to different things). If you want to merge the 2G part to the rest then use partition magic or the like (windows diskmanagement MAY be able to handle merging but I dont remember off hand). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Parrotgeek7 Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Is there another way?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Not really unless you use a 3rd party program to merge to adjoining partitions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted October 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Will the free demo of partition magic do it or do I need the full version? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 a good ole' 98 or Me boot disk can get rid of your partition and the XP install disk can create the new one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted October 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 If I put my xp cd in a get rid of the partition it wont screw my other partition im not sure if there is system files on the 2GB partition here are this files on the disk AUTOEXEC,boot,config,NTDETECT,pagefile,IO,MSDOS,ntldr? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
naraku9333 Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 If I put my xp cd in a get rid of the partition it wont screw my other partition im not sure if there is system files on the 2GB partition here are this files on the disk AUTOEXEC,boot,config,NTDETECT,pagefile,IO,MSDOS,ntldr?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Did the install finish? If not it would be easier to delete the parts, re-partition and re-install. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted October 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Those files are not on the 158GB partition so im not sure about getting rid of the other partition Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted October 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Is there another program like partition magic thats free because I dont see resone to but a program to use one time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 it's a lot easier just to start it off right then to try an fix it - trust me on this one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 whoa hangon you have a 160 gig harddrive. and you said there is a 158 gig partition. your system almost never registers all of what is advertised. are you sure there is another partition? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chappy Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 What happened is that the boot files were installed onto the 2G drive...its probably the C: drive right?XP will install the boot files to C:, even if that is not the same drive the OS is on, so if the 2G drive was created first, it was designated as C: and XP loaded the boot files onto it.As others have said, I would just start over again and erase that 2G drive, and reinstall XP. Its not worth spending that kind of $$$ on Part. Magic just for this, and there really isn't another way to do it without spending money for a 3rd party partitioning tool. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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