160 GB primary drive

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Well, I installed Windows 2000 Professional on a 160 GB drive, and the
CD only had service pack 2, so long LBA story short I now have about
21 GB of unallocated space at the end of the drive. What should I do
with that? Is there any way I can merge it with the rest, or will I
just have to make another partition?
 
Re: 160 GB primary drive


"phantom" <beatme101@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well, I installed Windows 2000 Professional on a 160 GB drive, and the
> CD only had service pack 2, so long LBA story short I now have about
> 21 GB of unallocated space at the end of the drive. What should I do
> with that? Is there any way I can merge it with the rest, or will I
> just have to make another partition?

You can merge it with the rest, using a partition manager such
as Acronis DiskDirector. My personal preference is to do it
exactly the other way: Install Windows in a 20 GByte partition
and put all my data on the remaining 140 GByte partition.
 
Re: 160 GB primary drive

In article <uUl0qZJEIHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, I.can@fly.com says...
>
> "phantom" <beatme101@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1192602181.869696.308020@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> > Well, I installed Windows 2000 Professional on a 160 GB drive, and the
> > CD only had service pack 2, so long LBA story short I now have about
> > 21 GB of unallocated space at the end of the drive. What should I do
> > with that? Is there any way I can merge it with the rest, or will I
> > just have to make another partition?
>
> You can merge it with the rest, using a partition manager such
> as Acronis DiskDirector. My personal preference is to do it
> exactly the other way: Install Windows in a 20 GByte partition
> and put all my data on the remaining 140 GByte partition.

The easiest, and safest, is to just create a second partition. Depending
on your computer, accessing beyond 120G before the Windows drivers load
could cause wraparound and a big mess.

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