Partitioning

[cnkengr]

I have deleted a partition and now have 37GB of free space on my harddrive . How do I convert that to my "C" drive ? I am using XP with disk management.

[BilluSugger]

How have you partitioned it ? Your C: drive is normally where the system lives . Should be a primary partition.

[cnkengr]

A D: partition has been removed leaving 37GB of free space I need to extend my C: drive to absorb the free space. How can I do this ?

[ChuckFickens]

You can't "stretch" a partition using XP alone, it has no facility to do this.

The need a partition manager, something like partition magic (try the CD's on the front of computer mags, you may find a free one)

But!!!

There is a very real danger that you will destroy the C partition and everything on it in streaching the partition.

If I was you I would recreate the partition you just deleted and learn to use the "extra" drive this will create on your computer (it's easy to move your documents folder to it for example)

[smith134]

You can extend your C driver partition with the help of Norton partition magic:
http://www.symantec.com/norton/partitionmagic

[realaleman]

Just last week I downloaded and used Easeus Partition Manager which I think will do what you want, and its a free download!

[johnpol78]

go to the device manager and merge the drives .

you can make a new partition for the free space in the hard disk.

download the partition manager software to extend the partition of c drive.