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HDD Partition Issues in  Vista--fixed
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:41:27
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I have my old laptop's HDD in a USB shell. Acer created three separate partitions on it: a 2.93 GB, 17.08 GB, and a 17.25 GB.

I'd like to delete two of the partitions on Disk 1, and have just one big 37.26 GB HDD. I plan to give it to my sister so that she can backup her stuff. I found a utility to manage partitions in Vista, but I don't see how to do it. All of my attempts to delete and extend partitions has failed. Sad Any help would be greatly appreciated! Happy
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:50:40
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It would be helpful if you defined "Failed".  You should be able to click on a partition you don't want, and press delete (NOT format) such that the space shows "unallocated".  Once done, right-click the partition you want and choose Extend.
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:52:46
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Alternatively, you could boot up a Linux Live CD and open qtparted or gparted (depending on whether you're in KDE or GNOME) and just right-click the partition and choose resize.

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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:58:39
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Okay, It's all fixed now. Thanks, Yoda. It was the "unallocated" part that was messing me up. I switched them to free space somehow, and it wouldn't let me extend.
Edited: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:28:38

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Yoda still waiting on the simpeltons guide to shared folders.

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