Partitioning a Hard Drive or How To Kill 6 Hours

I haven't done this but am curious how it turns out if you do it since I also have an Inspiron with 2.5 and 9.77gb drives. Mine also shows a 39mb drive labeled EISA configuration. I need to chase that one a bit to find out what Dell stuck there.

Go to Control panel ... admin tools. Then open Computer Management. Down the left list you'll see Storage...disk management. Clik there and it shows the partitions. Rt clik on an individual partition and it says you can shrink, extend, delete, etc..

Looks to me like you should now be able to add that 10gb to your C: right there.

Let us know how it turns out... if it works I'll want to do mine.

Good luck

Thanks for you advice. It worked.

How are you managing your backups now?

How important is it for you not to lose your data?

Answer these questions accurately so that we can properly advise you further.

I use thumb drives to back up the important files I need, that and external hard drives. The problem is solved now, I used answer number 1. I appreciate your willingness to help though.

Basically it appears that for whatever reason, Vista wouldn't let me use Partition Manager to do what I wanted to do. It could only be done by Vista.

Short of backing up all of your data, OS, programs, etc... and/or imaging your hard drive then repartitioning your drive to take advantage of the entire volume and re-loading or rebuilding your system, there are few accurate ways to perform the function you wish to perform.

PowerQuest Corp used to have a live re-partitioning program called "Partition Magic" before it was purchased years ago by Symantec: if you can grab one of te last versions of PQMagic (as it is called), that might work.