250gig external hard drive...

Clarkeymc | 15:31 Fri 28th Oct 2005 | Technology

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Got a 250gig external hard drive.

Looking at it from Disk Management (on Xp) its in 2 halfs, first half being the logical drive (191gig) and 2nd half is unallocated (40gig).

My question is... is it possible to have just a logical drive which is the full 250gig? (I know it wont be exactly 250gig) Instead of having to create another partition to get use of the other 40gig....

Cheers

Matt

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qapmoc

Hi Matt, well in theory the size limit for an XP NTFS volume size is 16 terabytes minus 4 KB. So there should be no obvious reason why you can't make it all one logical drive. Why is the drive partitioned that way to start with? It sounds a bit like a server disk or something similar with a small boot partition and a large data partition.

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I'm unsure. That's how it was when I got it outta the box. The only difference is I formatted the logical part from Fat to NTFS.

How do I go about making it one whole drive? Can it be done using the Disk Management thingy?

fo3nix

I'm 99% sure it can be done using Disk Management, yes. Not on XP at the moment so can't help with that just now. But it can be done, i'm quite sure.

Another alternative application, if you happen to have it, is Partition Magic.

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