Disk Management creates unmoveable "Free Space"

[Joshua61679]

I just deleted (what I believe was) an extended partion using the Disk Management funtion of XP Pro.

It now shows that the space that the parition was previously in is "Free Space." Just after this "Free Space", is the rest of the hard drive, which is "Unallocated."

I'd like to somehow get the "Free Space" and "Unallocated" to be the same thing so that I can create a new partition using both. Is there anyway to do this with the Disk Management built into XP, or am I gonna need some third party software?

Thanks.

-Josh

 

[linney]

From Help and Support.

free space
Available space that you use to create logical drives within an extended partition.

See also: extended partition; logical drive; unallocated space



XP PRO/FDISK Problem.
thread779-850607

 

[wolluf]

Think you've got another delete function to make (I did this recently, can't remember the terminology Disk Management uses, but if you right click on Free Space you should have option to delete it - so you'll just be left with one 'unallocated space' block - which you can repartition if you want).