Resizing a partition?

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  1. boiled_elephant

    boiled_elephant Merom Celeron 4 lyfe

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    My HDD is 150Gb, but the main (and only) partition is only 127Gb. Is there any way to reincorporate the extra space, or would I need to reformat?
    (and if not, will formatting the empty space as an extra drive mess my OS up? I've heard bad things about multiple partitions.)
     
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  2. Gravemind123

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    Oddly enough, I've never tried to combine partitions, but I've never had an issue with having multiple partitions, in fact I've had 2 partitions for a bit over 6 months now with no issue, and at other times have had dual-boot setups and single-OS multiple partition setups without issue using Windows XP, Vista and Ubuntu 6.06 and up.
     
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  3. cosmic

    cosmic What's a Dremel?

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    Multiple partitions on hard rives are not unusual - not sure what there is to worry about ?
     
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  4. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    Your running XP sp2 yes? That sounds remarkably like the LBA issue earlier windows versions had
    You may have something funky going on in your bios.
     
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  5. Hazardous

    Hazardous What's a Dremel?

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    Can't you resize it in Disk Management?

    Right-click 'My Computer' > Manage > Storage > Disk Management :idea:
     
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