Need help partioning

I have a computer with windows 98 and XP in a dual boot. It has a crappy 80 gig hard drive formated to FAT 32 with that drive partition with each copy of windows. Problem is only being able to use 32 gig of the 80 gigs. How can I go about formating or partitioning the rest of the 80gig into usable storage in NTFS format

 

This is all on one HD. Drive C (98) is listed boot and drive E (xp) is system. Both paritions are primary

 

Here's what a 5sgs got me:

From here.

Since you have XP disk, reformat to NTFS and lose '98 and FAT32. Why even use '98?:confused

 

I did not set this PC up. I found it in a house I bought. Old owners couldnt fix all the bugs in it. I already have just wanted to kick 98. It came with 98 and the added xp from what I can tell. I just wanted xp to remain though. Ill try and format 98 off the disc and add to xp. But xp is on disc E which is what everything is installed on so if I remove C would disc E become C or would it remain E and what issues may it couse.

 

Hmm, you might hose your XP install if you format C: as the MBR is tied to the Win 98. The disk structure will not change unless you can format it with an XP disc and then install XP clean. Other than that, leave all as it is. XP being on E:\ will not affect anything. Having no XP disc really narrows your options. Hey, it's free right?!:cool

 

Very true it is free. This was just trying to do something if possible. Your post cleared things up and proved my worry on screwing my boot was not just worry it was possible. So Ill leave it as it is and shrink the 98 partition with partition magic to a bare minimum of what it needs for 98 to sit on the disc and merge the rest into E as NTSF on partition magic and be done with it.

 

Would alocohol work? I have full version of Alcohol 120% that I use to image my games for no disc play and for multiple PC network play.

 

So in Admin Tools you have drive C: = how much space? and drive E:=how much space?

C:+E: =32gb?

One thing to check is the model number of your HD (SIW should give you that info under Hardware>Storage Devices). Some old larger HDs had a jumper setting that made them look like/limited them to 32gb drives so as to not confuse Win98.