TBBucs
November 14th, 2009, 05:43 PM
Right now, I have XP using half the disk (primary partition) and Ubuntu using the other half (logical partition). I decided to shrink them both down and add a FAT32 partition for file sharing. So loaded up GParted via the Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD. I shrunk down the XP partition (which is all the way to the left of the disk), and deleted the Linux partition.
The problem is, now I have two chunks of unallocated space: one from when I shrunk the XP partition, and the other from when I deleted the Linux partition. I can't seem to merge these together, as Linux's unallocated space is still in a logical partition (I guess, I don't quite understand that...it has the light blue border, which indicates logical partition), while XP's unallocated space does not. I just want one huge chunk of unallocated space.
Any ideas how to make this happen?
Edit: here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about: http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6572/partitions.png
The problem is, now I have two chunks of unallocated space: one from when I shrunk the XP partition, and the other from when I deleted the Linux partition. I can't seem to merge these together, as Linux's unallocated space is still in a logical partition (I guess, I don't quite understand that...it has the light blue border, which indicates logical partition), while XP's unallocated space does not. I just want one huge chunk of unallocated space.
Any ideas how to make this happen?
Edit: here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about: http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6572/partitions.png