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Partition removal in windows XP.

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by zifirin

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I did a full recovery on My PC that had 40 gigs of hard drive from the CD`s that came with the E Machine. After all was done I ended up with a 5.6 gigs for a "C" drive. I went into the computer management and storage and there it was my hard drive came up partitioned in two sections one with 5.6 gigs as "C" drive and the other 34.4 gigs as an inactive partition.
Anyone can help me fix this problem please.

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by rob miners

Go to this site

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

and download these files and add the new fdisk to the floppy when it is created.

Windows 98 SE Custom, No Ramdrive

Updated fdisk for Windows 98 bootdisks

Boot the PC from the Boot Disk.

At the command prompt type in fdisk and press Enter.

If the Hard Drive is Partitioned as FAT32 you will have to delete the Logical Partition first and then the Active Partition. Once that is complete recreate the Primary Partition as the whole drive.

If it is Partitioned as NTFS you will have to delete the NON DOS Logical Partition first and then the NON DOS Active Partition. Once that is complete recreate the Primary Partition as the whole drive.

If you haven't got a Floppy Drive try this

I use 3 programs

http://www.magiciso.com/

http://www.winimage.com/

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#beta

Because a lot of newer PC's don't have Floppy Drives anymore I use Virtual Floppy Drive. VFD.

Winimage is used to manipulate Floppy Drive Images. I have found it best to save them with the .ima extension.

Magic ISO will allow you to create multiboot CD/DVd's with menus.

These programs have help files to get you going.

Magic ISO has a step by step for creating multiboot CD/DVd's.

by rob miners

Boot from the floppy disk and follow these instructions

Select Y for treating NTFS partitions as large By pressing Enter
Select 3 Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive By pressing Enter
Select 4 Delete Non-DOS Partition By pressing Enter
Select 1 Primary and Select y and press Enter
It needs to do two steps to Make the Partition available.

Select 1 Create Primary Partition and press Enter
Select Y for the 'the default' setting to use the maximum available size for a Primary Partition and to make the partition active.

When it has finished exit by Pressing the Esc key to bring you back to the main FDISK Screen. Restart the PC for the changes to apply. You can then reinstall your Operating System.

< add a link >
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/delete_nondos_partition.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867

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