How to Expand XP Drive while the othe only drive is installed with Vista?

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ckckckck

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My laptop is preloaded with Vista home edition and there was only one single drive c, i took the method from this forum to shrink the c drive, and then created a new drive from it, called d drive. after that, i install the xp into that d drive, everything works out fine except that the new d drive has only 10 gigabyte, and xp is eroding the space very quickly, leaving only 2.6 giga free space to now. but meanwhile, the original c drive has almost 60 giga free space.

My screen-shot of the disk management is as below:

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my problem is how to extend my xp drive to have like 20 or 30 giga more space?
I barely use vista, and would rather make it disappear.

Thank you so much!
 

My Computer

System One

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 420
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.50GHz
    Motherboard
    Stock Dell 0TP406
    Memory
    4 gb (DDR2 800) 400MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 3870 (512 MBytes)
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1 x Dell 2007FP and 1 x (old) Sonic flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1204
    Hard Drives
    1 x 640Gb (SATA 300)
    Western Digital: WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0

    1 x 1Tb (SATA 600)
    Western Digital: Caviar Black, SATA 6GB/S, 64Mb cache, 8ms
    Western Digital: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device
    PSU
    Stock PSU - 375W
    Case
    Dell XPS 420
    Cooling
    Stock Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell Bluetooth
    Mouse
    Advent Optical ADE-WG01 (colour change light up)
    Internet Speed
    120 kb/s
    Other Info
    ASUS USB 3.0 5Gbps/SATA 6Gbps - PCI-Express Combo Controller Card (U3S6)
Hi I managed to get into Vista and start shrinking, but it is taking forever, it has been processing for 5 hours, and there is no indicator if it's truly doing anything. can you help me what I shall do at this moment? thank you!
 

My Computer

System One

Hi,

It is taking a long time. This is probably due to a badly fragmented disk. The problem is it will "pause" if a file it wants to move is being used. You can try to cancel it by right clicking on the C:\ drive, click on Properties, and under the tools tab, click Defragment Now. Then cancel the Disk Defragment in the new window.

Then defragment your hard disk using the FREE Auslogics Disk Deframent: Download Auslogics Disk Defrag for free

Again, you may have a problem because if a system file is getting in the way, disk defragment will wait for it to get out of the way (which it never will) Therefore, I would reommend using the free Partition Wizard: http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

Richard
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 420
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.50GHz
    Motherboard
    Stock Dell 0TP406
    Memory
    4 gb (DDR2 800) 400MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 3870 (512 MBytes)
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1 x Dell 2007FP and 1 x (old) Sonic flat screen
    Screen Resolution
    1600 x 1200 and 1280 x 1204
    Hard Drives
    1 x 640Gb (SATA 300)
    Western Digital: WDC WD6400AAKS-75A7B0

    1 x 1Tb (SATA 600)
    Western Digital: Caviar Black, SATA 6GB/S, 64Mb cache, 8ms
    Western Digital: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device
    PSU
    Stock PSU - 375W
    Case
    Dell XPS 420
    Cooling
    Stock Fan
    Keyboard
    Dell Bluetooth
    Mouse
    Advent Optical ADE-WG01 (colour change light up)
    Internet Speed
    120 kb/s
    Other Info
    ASUS USB 3.0 5Gbps/SATA 6Gbps - PCI-Express Combo Controller Card (U3S6)
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