How do I get my partitions back?

[maxduo]

A while back I partitioned my harddrive into 3 different sections, 2 for Linux and one for XP. At some point I had to reinstall Windows which, of course, removed Linux from the bootdisk. At this point though I only need this computer to be for various things in Windows XP so I formatted it last night and deleted the partitions through the Windows disk management tool beforehand. However, I still have the same space on my windows partition and when I look at disk management it shows that I have 30gb of unallocated space. How in the world do I manage to get this back with the Windows partition? I can't find any option on that tool to do it and the help system is a joke. I've tried looking around and found a few programs that say they can do it, but they require payment. Any other way I can go about this?


Thanks,
Tyler

 

[kimsland]

I like Gparted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
Free Boot CD

 

[maxduo]

Thanks, fixed it with GParted.

 

[kimsland]

Thanks for the update :grinthumb