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echoes73
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_ 		24. May 2008 @ 12:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have a Western Digital 80gb external hard drive that I use for music and video files. A few months back I partitioned it so that 50gb was NTFS and the other 30gb or so was in FAT32 so that I could use it with my PS3. I now use Tversity to stream videos and copy my mkv files to dual layer so no longer need the 30gb partition for FAT32. I used Partition Magic to delete the partition. Now in my computer I have one drive that comes up but it reads as only having 50gb instead of having 80gb from the other 30gb that is no longer used... What happened?
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sammorris
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_ 		25. May 2008 @ 12:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Deleting a partition won't automatically make the other one larger to fill up the free space, you will need to do that as a separate operation - you should also be able to do that in partition magic.
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echoes73
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_ 		25. May 2008 @ 23:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
any other time I have deleted partitions with partition magic it did that automatically for me?
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sammorris
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_ 		26. May 2008 @ 08:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Were both partitions the same file system though?
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echoes73
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_ 		26. May 2008 @ 20:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No one was NTFS and the other FAT32
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_ 		26. May 2008 @ 21:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hmm, it might have been an option that got overlooked then. I don't use partition magic myself.
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echoes73
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_ 		27. May 2008 @ 16:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well i fixed it using a wizard ive never used before, im a complete newb to partition magic i just used to do it all the old fashioned way. it worked but I swear ive done this in the past and it was automatically done for me.
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sammorris
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_ 		27. May 2008 @ 16:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Versions differ I suppose. I'll bear this in mind for helping out others. Thanks for the heads up.
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