Sony Vaio - unnecessary partition?

[ScorpionSoul]

My wife has an old Sony Vaio (PCG-971L). It's partitioned with the C: (FAT32) having around 7GB and the D: (NTFS) having around 11GB.

I used her recovery CDs and chose the option to recover only to a C:, hoping that it would be the sole drive, utilizing the entire 18GB. The result was the same partitioned C: with the remaining 11GB as unallocated space.

I tried "extending" the C:, but it won't extend unless it's formatted as NTFS, but the recovery automatically formats it as FAT32.

Is there a way to incorporate all of the space into one drive, or is it stuck with the partitions?

I know, it's severely out of date and she needs a new computer.... but that's not an option at the moment.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Colourless]

Convert it to NTFS then extend it?

 

[entity279]

The system drive can be converted?

 

[Davros]

instructions here :
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

 

[ScorpionSoul]

I'll give it a try, thanks!

 

[ScorpionSoul]

Awesome, it worked!

Now I just need to find some upgrade parts... thing came with a 500mhz AMD and only 256MB of RAM.

Thanks again!