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"Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:22F88D8A-6B56-473E-AFF1-C18D21A8E101@microsoft.com...
> So I just tired to repartition while booting off the Vista CD, but when I
> went to make a new partition with the unallocated space, I got this error
> "error 0x8004240f". Did vista just screw up my hard drive?
>
> "Dan" wrote:
>
>> Setup:
>> 1 harddrive, 3 partitions: C(80GB)-vista, D(20GB)-xp, E(200GB)-storage
>>
>> I decided I didn't want xp partition anymore so I used disk management in
>> Vista to delete the volume. It shows up as "Free space" now. When I attempt
>> to make a new simple volume in the free space (also using disk management) I
>> get error "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete
>> this operation." What's up with that? Please help me get my 20GB back!
>>
>> PS - I've tried extending my storage partition but it says there's not
>> volume to extend it to (diskpart)