I've an older computer with a single hard drive that had been partitioned. The OS (XP SP3) is on the C: drive, but the C: drive was only allocated 10gb on a 120gb hard disk. I deleted the D: partition and made it unallocated space, but Diskpart still
will not extend the C: drive at all. According to the MS site, Diskpart will not extend a volume on a Dynamic disk in XP, only a Basic disk. So, I checked and C: is formatted as a basic disk. I then made all the other unallocated disk space a partition and reformatted it as a Basic disk. Then
I deleted the partition and attempted once again to extend C:. Diskpart will still not extend the volume, even when following the Diskpart instructions explicitly.
So, I'm now considering making the unallocated space a partition again, then ghosting the C:drive onto the new partition and deleting the C:drive. There are no programs other than the OS on the C: drive worth saving.
I'm attempting to make the hard drive usable so I can sell this computer. Any other way I can attempt to extend the C: volume onto the entire drive? Is my drive ghosting idea worth a shot?
View this thread
will not extend the C: drive at all. According to the MS site, Diskpart will not extend a volume on a Dynamic disk in XP, only a Basic disk. So, I checked and C: is formatted as a basic disk. I then made all the other unallocated disk space a partition and reformatted it as a Basic disk. Then
I deleted the partition and attempted once again to extend C:. Diskpart will still not extend the volume, even when following the Diskpart instructions explicitly.
So, I'm now considering making the unallocated space a partition again, then ghosting the C:drive onto the new partition and deleting the C:drive. There are no programs other than the OS on the C: drive worth saving.
I'm attempting to make the hard drive usable so I can sell this computer. Any other way I can attempt to extend the C: volume onto the entire drive? Is my drive ghosting idea worth a shot?
View this thread