re: Add space on an empty partiton to the current one
Friday, June 15, 2007 at 6:55 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6122 messages posted)
The 6 MB partition is the bootstrap loader which is created when you have an NTFS
formated Windows partition. It is also there in case you install a dual boot environment.
You can't get rid of it at this point or combine it with any other partition. The
only way to recover it is to totally repartition and reinstall Windows with the FAT16
or 32 file system, and even that sometimes will not get rid of it. The bootstrap
loader must be in a FAT 16 or 32 partition and that's why (reason #1) that it's there.
You need a bigger drive anyway so the extra 6 meg of space isn't going to really
help here.. W2Kneeds a lot more space than that to function properly and you probably
have at least a drive that is bigger than 10 gig, not MB, as Windows NT systems would
be to big for that.
On Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 7:16 am, Tim Timpson wrote:
>I have a laptop (OS Windows 2000) which I thought only had 12mb on the hard drive.
>Well I have just found a partition which has an extra 6mb of space on it. The c:\
>(12mb) is nearly full (11mb used) so the performance is not good.
>
>If I use a partition program (e.g. Partiton Logic) - can I use these kind of programs
>without having to format the c:\ ?
>
>Is the a good free Partition program that I can use? - I don't know what program
>is best but I don't want to pay to buy stuff like Partition Magic.
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