How do i mount free disk space on HD to microsoft XP without having to reformat

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i was dual booting linux and windows XP until recently when linux (fedora Core) didnt have any purpose to serve anymore. i deleted linux off of my hard drive, leaving only the XP partition, i now have 39gigs free and cant figure out how to give it to the XP partition without reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling XP and everything else. help anyone?

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Last edited by Catweazle; Jun 30th, 2005 at 11:05 pm.

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Re: How do i mount free disk space on HD to microsoft XP without having to reformat

Tools like partition magic can do the job but carry a risk factor as well.

I would just reformat the unused space and make it a D drive.

You can just Fdisk it then Format it....

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Quote originally posted by Thong_Ispector ...

You can just Fdisk

I'd use the built-in Windows XP tools personally - you're not limited to FAT32 that way.

You can create a new partition in the unused space using Disk Management (Control Panel->Admin Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management).

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