Re: [Thinkpad] big disk, small xp

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:30:04 -0500, you wrote:

> is there any way to get XP to see the whole disk? the disk was
> completely formatted (first with qt_parted, then when i noticed
> the anomaly, i used the XP install disk to reformat the drive).
>
> if there is no good way to get XP to grow into the partition, my
> fallback will be to shrink the partition to about 34 gb and make a
> new one and keep my files there.

I use a program called Partition Magic to resize partitions but that one
costs money. Here are some freeware ones to consider. I have not tried
them but they all come with recommendations from alt.comp.freeware which
has been an excellent source of information on high quality free software.

http://www.ranish.com/part/
http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
http://visopsys.org/partlogic/

Tony
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Received on Thu Mar 2 07:43:43 2006