RECAP:
80GB HD. How many partitions show and what utility are you using to see them?
NOTE: there is always the chance of damaging an installed OS installation when changing its partition size.
Is there a function in any of your utilities to format the unformatted space?
Can you start Windows and open DISK MANAGEMENT to repartition/format?
Hello,
I have a Toshiba Satellite M45 running Windows XP Home SP2 with a 1.6ghz centrino and 1gig ram. Recently, I'd installed the new Linux OS called Ubuntu. This is not a question about Ubuntu. I had created 3 more partitions on my 80gig harddrive for a dual boot system. One was for Linux, another for its swap file, and one other for a shared fat32 space between windows and linux. I decided I didn't want to use this version of Linux and wanted to remove it. I used the Linux Rescue CD that had created the partitions to remove them (this is where my subject title starts to make some sense). I had run the format utility for the partitions before deleting the partitions but noticed that the process only took about a minute. I don't think it actually had formatted anything. Now when I run diskeeper, where there use to only be about a bar and a half of reserved system space on the performance map, there are now 5 bars of reserved system space! I'm sure I did not remove linux properly, just removed it from the mbr and resized my primary windows partition. I think that makes sense.
Can anyone help me recover this space without using my toshiba recovery cd? It would be much appreciated..

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