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Just a thought Brian maybe you could do something with the Partition Wizard to "manipulate" your partitions.
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Having said that the others are far more capable of advising you what to do and I don't know if my suggestion would fit in with what they have posted .
Re the confusion earlier that was just me jumping to the assumption that you had a new drive you were trying to partition for an OS