quote:
Originally posted by MeEtc
HOWEVER, since this is your system drive, I don't think you can change it. The only cause of this problem, as far as I can think of, is that when you re-installed, you didn't write over the old partition. To solve this, when in Disk Management, there is only one partition. If the data isn't important (if you were trying to format once, it probably isn't) right-click on the partitions and delete the extra ones. Get a DOS boot disk, and then use fdisk to delete the remaining one. you can then re-install windows on the drive, and you should the be able to make a partition over the full disk, instead of just part of it.
lol that must be one of the most complicated and old fashioned ways of moving/resizing/editing partitions
It should work though...
I use
Partition Magic (the PowerQuest one
, before they merged into Symantec
) to do this kind of jobs, but in this case with a fresh install and stuff my advice is to reinstall with the cardreader disconnected.
edit:
free Partition Magic "trial" 
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