Unpartitioned space

how random · 6 Dec 2007 at 11:34

I decided to reinstall windows today, so i went about booting to the xp setup disk and deleting the 100Gb partition which windows was on. I had already got 100Gb of unpartitioned space on this drive and now i have two lots of 100Gb unpartitioned space. Shouldn't these have combined into one block of 200Gb of unpartitioned space?
I wanted to install windows onto a 200Gb partition which i thought i would get for doing what i have done

Thanks, Scott

rpstewart · 6 Dec 2007 at 11:39

If the two blocks of space are contiguous then they should appear as a single block, if not then they are still two separate blocks of space.

Are there any other partitions on the disk?
What method did you use to delete the partitions?
What are you using to show that there are two 100Gb unpartitioned areas?

how random · 6 Dec 2007 at 11:45

Yes there are two other partitions on this disk, both about 50Gb.

I used the windows setup cd to delete the partition which used to have windows on and im also using this to show that there are two 100Gb unpartitioned areas

rpstewart · 6 Dec 2007 at 11:49

Sounds like the other partitions are between the two 100Gb sections in which case what you're seeing is entirely correct - each partition must be a contiguous section of disk.

how random · 6 Dec 2007 at 11:53

Oh i see what you mean, looks like im going to have to delete those partitions as well to get what i want, thanks for your help.

rpstewart · 6 Dec 2007 at 12:14

You could use Partition Magic (the trial is fully functional I believe) to move the existing partitions around to give you a single piece of contiguous unpartitioned space.