Um...
Got a new HDD last week (see my other thread for details on that fiasco) and partitioned it up to what I wanted. My problem is, I messed up the size for one partition (it asked for them in Mb, I was thinking in Gb), and when I clicked 'delete partition', all it did was erase the name of the partition, it was still there as a seperate block of 'unused space' that I couldn't seem to add to any other partitions. Then, to make matters worse, I went and installed Windows on the tiny partition. I haven't installed anything really important (deliberately so) over the last week so that I can have another go at the weekend, and I want to do it properly this time.
So...how can I squish everything all back into one partition again, or at least get rid of this extra mini-partition that Windows is installed on atm? Data loss doesn't worry me, as I said, there's nothing important on it. I just want to fix this mess I made.
Thanks
tTz
PS: The 160Gb drive is showing up at 127Gb, even with SP2. I'm unsure if I can extend this small partition to include the extra 30Gb, as I tried what was in the sticky, and kept getting errors that the command wasn't recognised. I thought it might have been the mobo was too old, but I can't find any info it at all to check this. It's an Asus P4S533, a good few years old. Strange that I can't find the info on it, it definitely used to be on the Asus site. Any help appreciated.
Got a new HDD last week (see my other thread for details on that fiasco) and partitioned it up to what I wanted. My problem is, I messed up the size for one partition (it asked for them in Mb, I was thinking in Gb), and when I clicked 'delete partition', all it did was erase the name of the partition, it was still there as a seperate block of 'unused space' that I couldn't seem to add to any other partitions. Then, to make matters worse, I went and installed Windows on the tiny partition. I haven't installed anything really important (deliberately so) over the last week so that I can have another go at the weekend, and I want to do it properly this time.
So...how can I squish everything all back into one partition again, or at least get rid of this extra mini-partition that Windows is installed on atm? Data loss doesn't worry me, as I said, there's nothing important on it. I just want to fix this mess I made.
Thanks
tTz
PS: The 160Gb drive is showing up at 127Gb, even with SP2. I'm unsure if I can extend this small partition to include the extra 30Gb, as I tried what was in the sticky, and kept getting errors that the command wasn't recognised. I thought it might have been the mobo was too old, but I can't find any info it at all to check this. It's an Asus P4S533, a good few years old. Strange that I can't find the info on it, it definitely used to be on the Asus site. Any help appreciated.
I think it's more down to the pre-SP1 issue about Windows not recognising drives over 127Gb. I've had a go at what it said in the sticky, but no luck. Perhaps I was doing it wrong. I was hoping that I could extend the smaller partition to include the 30Gb extra, and solve my problem that way.
