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I have bought a new PC as my old one kept crashing and was very noisy, so I wanted to use as many of the parts as possible and one was the old 160gb HDD, now added as a slave, with a new OS on the new 80gb HDD.

Many of the old programs failed to work so I've been through the process of re-installing or downloading them all again, but one is being stubborn (Cute FTP) It is now saying my trial period is over (even though Ive been using it for the last 4 years)

It runs from its old location but has lost its serial code and the company cant/wont help me.

I'm guessing that the registratrion info is in the old registry, but is it possible to access this on the old HDD?

Whilst I'm asking, what about the partition on the old HDD where XP was have been installed (hidden somewhere) - can I get at that and make use of it now it is no longer being used.

Hello Latics,

Welcome to PCHF.

Unfortunately, I cannot help you with your CuteFTP problem, as if you don't have the original Reg code, and the company you purchased this from will not help you, I'm afraid your only option would be to purchase this again. There are alternative methods which cannot be discussed here, please read PCHF Rules on this.

There is however alternative software to CuteFTP. Free software called FTP-Genius. Not quite as good as CuteFTP but it does the job. This comes with Zip-Genius, and can be downloaded from here: ZipGenius.it - Free zip utility for Windows that handles zip, rar, cab, 7-zip archives and CD-ROM ISO9660 image files » ZipGenius

As for your Windows disk, you can see all your patitions from My Computer, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management followed by Disk Management. You can format or repartition your additional drives from here. However, you should still be able to see your old disks in My Computer? (Unless maybe Windows was downgraded from Vista, or Pro downto Home)?

Yes, I thought I might have to get a new program and start from scratch.

As for the old HDD, in Disk Management it is saying there is 146.79gb on a 160gb drive, with splits from E to J, with E being the primary (the old C drive) and the rest being extended (partition magic did this some years ago)

I'm sure XP is installed on this E drive and takes up much of the 'lost' space, but how to get to it?

You mention viewing the old drives in My Computer, which is all fine, they are all there, its just the wasted space I'd like back.

Time (the people who built the old PC) installed XP on a seperate partition rather than give you the XP disk.

If there's any free space, it will show in Disk Management as "Unallocated"?

However, 146gb sounds about right for a 160gb drive, since some of the space is needed for disk information (otherwise known as the MBR - master boot record). You can read more about this in detail here: Hard Disk Partitioning Primer

Probably a good idea to cut that XP installation onto CD in case anything happens to your disk.

No need, as I have an XP disc from my new PC.

Incidentally, I solved the Cute FTP problem by..... dropping them as useless, and now have Core FTP Lite, and today found what looks even better, an extension for Firefox called FireFTP which looks excellent and does not require additional software to be opened.

Great stuff, looks like your good to go latics!

Will mark this one as answered?

Yes thanks