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Topic: Confusion with partitions shown in GpartEd versus XP-disk-manager

Windows XP Home shows in the explorer and as well in the disk-management the following: (all on 1 HDD):

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 (C:), 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" the I get "0 space before and after", so that I cannot expand partition C.

So, I ask for explanation and assistance ...

TIA

Lendersdorfer

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Re: Confusion with partitions shown in GpartEd versus XP-disk-manager

Sorry for the smilies - I had enterd a ":"

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Re: Confusion with partitions shown in GpartEd versus XP-disk-manager

You must write there how Gparted names the partitions:
Principal and extended partitions are named something like hda1, hda2, hda3, hda4, and "logical disks" (contained *within* an extended partition) take numbers 5 and above.

Perhaps the partitions are named not hd... but sd...

An extended partition can contain many "logical disks". I guess that BACKUP is a logical disk within an extended partition.  If your D: is empty, you can delete it, then delete the extended partition that contained it, and so have the space to expand the C: partition.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***