Vista - Getting extra disk space back

08-29-2007

I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of
unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to
the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a total
disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb HD.

Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little
helps.

Thanks.

Andy.

08-29-2007

"Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of
>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to
>the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a total
>disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb HD.
>
> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little
> helps.

Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what
you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known
such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such
program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free
30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30 days.
I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed such a program, but it
comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

08-29-2007

"Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx
>

Quote:

>>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of
>>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to
>>the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a
>>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb
>>HD.
>>
>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little
>> helps.

>
> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
> partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what
> you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known
> such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such
> program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free
> 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30
> days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed such a program,
> but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>

Thanks I might give that a try.

Andy.

08-29-2007

"Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx
>

Quote:

>>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of
>>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to
>>the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a
>>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb
>>HD.
>>
>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little
>> helps.

>
> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
> partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what
> you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known
> such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such
> program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free
> 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30
> days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed such a program,
> but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>

And Acronis Disk Director 10 which is a tad bit more user friendly than
Bootit.:-)

--
Michael Solomon
Backup is a PC user's best friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

08-29-2007

"Michael Solomon" <user@#notme.com> wrote in message
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Quote:

>
>
> "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx

Quote:

>> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx
>>

Quote:

>>>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of
>>>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back
>>>to the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a
>>>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a
>>>160gb HD.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little
>>> helps.

>>
>> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
>> partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do
>> what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the
>> best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives.
>> One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes
>> with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want
>> within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed
>> such a program, but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs
>> here.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>

> And Acronis Disk Director 10 which is a tad bit more user friendly than
> Bootit.:-)
>
> --
> Michael Solomon
> Backup is a PC user's best friend
> DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

Yep, looks like that Acronis Disk Director 10 is the one I am looking for
however its not free :-( not worth me paying just to get 10gb onto my drive
c I may as well leave it partitioned as is.

Thanks,

Andy.

08-29-2007

Andy spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself:

Quote:

> "Michael Solomon" <user@#notme.com> wrote in message
> news:26512890-9B9E-4E3A-A94B-6BF01CE4A222@xxxxxx

Quote:

>>
>>
>> "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx

Quote:

>>> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx
>>>
>>>> I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have
>>>> 10GB of unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of
>>>> giving this back to the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a
>>>> 160gb SATA drive and says a total disk size of 138GB total and
>>>> this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb HD.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every
>>>> little helps.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing
>>> the partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way
>>> to do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic
>>> is the best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware
>>> alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's
>>> shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you should be
>>> able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used it
>>> myself, because I've never needed such a program, but it comes
>>> highly recommended by several other MVPs here.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>>

>> And Acronis Disk Director 10 which is a tad bit more user friendly
>> than Bootit.:-)
>>
>> --
>> Michael Solomon
>> Backup is a PC user's best friend
>> DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

>
>
>
> Yep, looks like that Acronis Disk Director 10 is the one I am looking
> for however its not free :-( not worth me paying just to get 10gb
> onto my drive c I may as well leave it partitioned as is.

Hiren's BootCD

--
Mhzjunkie

1 PRINT "Windows Vista ERROR"
GOTO 1
END

08-30-2007

"Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

>
> "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx

Quote:

>> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx
>>

Quote:

>>>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of
>>>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back
>>>to the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a
>>>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a
>>>160gb HD.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little
>>> helps.

>>
>> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
>> partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do
>> what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the
>> best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives.
>> One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes
>> with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want
>> within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed
>> such a program, but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs
>> here.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>

>
> Thanks I might give that a try.
>
> Andy.

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 is also very good and plays nicely in Vista.

Ed

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08-30-2007

"Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx

Quote:

>> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx
>>

Quote:

>>>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of
>>>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back
>>>to the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a
>>>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a
>>>160gb HD.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little
>>> helps.

>>
>> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
>> partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do
>> what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the
>> best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives.
>> One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes
>> with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want
>> within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed
>> such a program, but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs
>> here.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>

>
> Thanks I might give that a try.

You're welcome. Glad to help.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

08-29-2007	#1 (permalink)
Andy n/a posts	Getting extra disk space back I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb HD. Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little helps. Thanks. Andy.
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08-29-2007	#2 (permalink)
Ken Blake n/a posts	Re: Getting extra disk space back "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx Quote: >I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of >unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to >the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a total >disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb HD. > > Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little > helps. Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed such a program, but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
My System Specs

08-29-2007	#3 (permalink)
Andy n/a posts	Re: Getting extra disk space back "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx Quote: > "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx > Quote: >>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of >>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to >>the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a >>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb >>HD. >> >> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little >> helps. > > Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the > partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what > you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known > such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such > program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free > 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30 > days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed such a program, > but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here. > > > -- > Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User > Please reply to the newsgroup > Thanks I might give that a try. Andy.
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08-29-2007	#4 (permalink)
Michael Solomon n/a posts	Re: Getting extra disk space back "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx Quote: > "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx > Quote: >>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of >>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back to >>the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a >>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb >>HD. >> >> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little >> helps. > > Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the > partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do what > you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the best-known > such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. One such > program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free > 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30 > days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed such a program, > but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here. > > > -- > Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User > Please reply to the newsgroup > And Acronis Disk Director 10 which is a tad bit more user friendly than Bootit.:-) -- Michael Solomon Backup is a PC user's best friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
My System Specs

08-29-2007	#5 (permalink)
Andy n/a posts	Re: Getting extra disk space back "Michael Solomon" <user@#notme.com> wrote in message news:26512890-9B9E-4E3A-A94B-6BF01CE4A222@xxxxxx Quote: > > > "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx Quote: >> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx >> Quote: >>>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of >>>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back >>>to the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a >>>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a >>>160gb HD. >>> >>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little >>> helps. >> >> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the >> partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do >> what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the >> best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. >> One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes >> with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want >> within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed >> such a program, but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs >> here. >> >> >> -- >> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User >> Please reply to the newsgroup >> > And Acronis Disk Director 10 which is a tad bit more user friendly than > Bootit.:-) > > -- > Michael Solomon > Backup is a PC user's best friend > DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ Yep, looks like that Acronis Disk Director 10 is the one I am looking for however its not free :-( not worth me paying just to get 10gb onto my drive c I may as well leave it partitioned as is. Thanks, Andy.
My System Specs

08-29-2007	#6 (permalink)
Mhzjunkie n/a posts	Re: Getting extra disk space back Andy spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself: Quote: > "Michael Solomon" <user@#notme.com> wrote in message > news:26512890-9B9E-4E3A-A94B-6BF01CE4A222@xxxxxx Quote: >> >> >> "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx Quote: >>> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message >>> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx >>> >>>> I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have >>>> 10GB of unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of >>>> giving this back to the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a >>>> 160gb SATA drive and says a total disk size of 138GB total and >>>> this surely should be 148GB for a 160gb HD. >>>> >>>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every >>>> little helps. >>> >>> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing >>> the partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way >>> to do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic >>> is the best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware >>> alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's >>> shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you should be >>> able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used it >>> myself, because I've never needed such a program, but it comes >>> highly recommended by several other MVPs here. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User >>> Please reply to the newsgroup >>> >> And Acronis Disk Director 10 which is a tad bit more user friendly >> than Bootit.:-) >> >> -- >> Michael Solomon >> Backup is a PC user's best friend >> DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ > > > > Yep, looks like that Acronis Disk Director 10 is the one I am looking > for however its not free :-( not worth me paying just to get 10gb > onto my drive c I may as well leave it partitioned as is. Hiren's BootCD -- Mhzjunkie 1 PRINT "Windows Vista ERROR" GOTO 1 END
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08-30-2007	#7 (permalink)
Ed M. n/a posts	Re: Getting extra disk space back "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fb4iro$s5b$1@xxxxxx Quote: > > "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx Quote: >> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx >> Quote: >>>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of >>>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back >>>to the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a >>>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a >>>160gb HD. >>> >>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little >>> helps. >> >> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the >> partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do >> what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the >> best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. >> One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes >> with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want >> within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed >> such a program, but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs >> here. >> >> >> -- >> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User >> Please reply to the newsgroup >> > > Thanks I might give that a try. > > Andy. Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 is also very good and plays nicely in Vista. Ed Quote: > >
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08-30-2007	#8 (permalink)
Ken Blake n/a posts	Re: Getting extra disk space back "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fb4iro$s5b$1@xxxxxx Quote: > "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:uOrMwSn6HHA.1208@xxxxxx Quote: >> "Andy" <andy@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:fb4fao$eub$1@xxxxxx >> Quote: >>>I have just gone into my computer management and found I now have 10GB of >>>unallocated space on Disk 0 and I cannot find a way of giving this back >>>to the c: drive. At the moment Drive c: is a 160gb SATA drive and says a >>>total disk size of 138GB total and this surely should be 148GB for a >>>160gb HD. >>> >>> Anyone know how to add it onto C:? I know its not much but every little >>> helps. >> >> Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the >> partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to do >> what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the >> best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware alternatives. >> One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes >> with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want >> within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself, because I've never needed >> such a program, but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs >> here. >> >> >> -- >> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User >> Please reply to the newsgroup >> > > Thanks I might give that a try. You're welcome. Glad to help. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
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