Alright, here's my situation. I have an HP desktop with a SATA harddrive. It has 200 GB of space, 10 GB of which goes to a Recovery Partition, and the rest goes to my C drive. Or at least it should. I'm only getting roughly 20 GB of space with the C drive, and the rest becomes unallocated space. Windows XP is installed on the C drive, and the system is NTFS. I also have a second harddrive installed, which is a 70 GB harddrive, which I've been using for more space. Both Harddrives are Western Digital.

What I want is to put the unallocated space in the C drive so I no longer need the second harddrive. I've looked and looked for programs to do this, but to no avail; at least nothing that I know how to use without screwing up my system. The only one I've found is Partition Magic, but I need to buy it in order for it to work. Would this program even work for me? And are there any free alternatives that can do what I'm looking for? I've even tried the Western Digital tools, but they don't work, I'm assuming, because my C drive is NTFS, although I might be wrong.

If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be very thankful.

Thanks in advance.

Hello HungryWolf, welcome to PCHF!

Partition Magic will certainly do the job, but not without destroying the existing partition first. You might as well just use the recovery or XP setup CD and re-partition the disks during setup.

The only software I've found that will resize a partition without destroying it is Acronis: Acronis Partition Manager - disk partitioning for Windows XP and 98, resize, copy, move, split and merge partitions but I'm afraid it does come with a price.

I see, thank you very much. I'm just going to try to partition with the recovery CDs.

With my luck, something's bound to go wrong...

OK Wolf. Marked as answered (for now).