Topic: I repeat my query posted yesterday because of formal errors
My yesterday posting was crowded with smilies due to certain character combinations. I was not aware of turning off this option.
Since this topic is important for me, please let me repeat (now without disturbing smilies):
Windows XP Home shows in the explorer and as well in the disk-management the following partitions:
BOOT C, ntfs, 18 GB
BACKUP D, ntfs, 18 GB
RECOVER E, fat32, 2 GB
I wanted to join C and D to have 1 partition with 36 GB. D is empty.
On one computer that worked perfectly with Gparted.
On another computer not. On this other computer XP-disk management showed the same constellation, but Gparted showed very different:
BOOT, ntfs, 18 GB
extended, 18 GB
BACKUP, ntfs, 18 GB
Recover, fat32, 2 GB
This "extended" part is what I do not understand. When I click (within Gparted) on "change size" for partition C, I get "0 space before and after", so that I cannot expand partition C.
May I please ask for explanation and assistance ...
Greetings
Lendersdorfer