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For some reason my HD has 2 partitions, drive C and drive G (this was due to a faulty format of C), anyway it loads G automatically and I've been using it, but it for some reason only had 13GB of space which isn't enough, C still has 146GB...
Can I delete C and merge G into C? I really need more space, Googling doesnt seem to help, the articles are kind of confusing.
There seems to be good info for the built in software to do this:
Repartitioning a Disk
Repartitioning a disk with Windows XP is unpleasant at best. Windows can only create and delete partitions--it can't move, resize, or copy them, and converting them requires using a DOS command. To rearrange the partitions on your system using only the Windows' Disk Management program, you delete the partitions that are the wrong size or in the wrong location. Then create new partitions. Follow these steps:
Back up all the files on the partitions that you need to delete.
Open the Disk Management pane in the Computer Management window--choose Start, right-click My Computer, choose Manage, and click Disk Management under the Storage heading in the Computer Management window. You see the Disk Management pane shown in Figure 32-4.
Delete the partitions that are in the wrong place or are the wrong size by right-clicking each one and choosing Delete Partition or Delete Logical Drive from the menu that appears.
Create new ones by right-clicking the unallocated space (or free space in an extended partition) and choosing New Partition or New Logical Drive from the menu that appears.
Reload the backed up data.
Third-party disk utilities, such as PartitionMagic, make this process safer and easier and permit many kinds of changes without backing up and reloading everything. PartitionMagic can move, copy, and resize partitions without deleting them (it's amazing, actually). Utilities such as Drive Image make it easy to create a copy of a partition so you can reload it later. If you plan to use multiple partitions, we recommend you look into third-party partitioning programs (see the section "Installing Multiple Versions of Windows with PartitionMagic" earlier in this chapter).
EaseUS is a good tool. My fear is that your system is so messed up that you may render it unbootable by deleting C. It almost sounds like a FUBARed multi-boot setup which can be fragile. And you say "it loads G automatically" which makes me think %systemroot% is g:\Windows so if that becomes C, its all going to break if the registry isn't fixed.
It would be safer to just shrink C and give more space to G if that's where Windows is installed. Its not ideal but it'll work. Have a full backup and be prepared to nuke the whole thing and start fresh if it goes sideways.
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