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Re: Expanding a partition -adding a hard drive
by adam on Tuesday July 02, @07:33PM
I have bought a new 20gig HDD and I did fdisk in DOS before formatting it an insatlling windows 2000, When I partitioned it I said for the computer to do a 100% partition, instead it only partitioned and formatted 2gig. I got into disk managment and partitioned and formatted the left over 18gig after installing win2k, i didnt assign a drive letter to the new partition, is there a way to add that 18gig (new partition) the that other 2gig on c:? thanx for ur help.

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    Re: Expanding a partition -adding a hard drive
    by Understudy on Friday July 05, @01:55PM
    In order for a partition to be assigned a drive letter with DOS/ Windows it must be a primary partition not a logical partition . I have learned that when I create a partition the first time ( for windows )it is created as a logical partition. I use Partition magic with windows. Once the partition is created I go back and change it from logical to primary. If you are looking to add this partition you would then have to merge it with the original partition. I am lazy in doing this with windoze and use partition magic to do this because fdisk tends to hate me. I have learned that even using fdisk for a dos partition is a very different game than merging a partition in FreeBSD. Which is done from a command line and not quite as flexible as with a fat32 partition. However with that said I also have a lot more control of my slices with FreeBSD.
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