Expanding a partition does not cause such issues. Check to see if there are
any bad sectors on the disk or if the file system is corrupted. do a chkdsk
/r on the HD. If this takes a long time then you have bad sectors and the HD
will need to be replaced at sometime as to not lose your any data.

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"LeeCC" <LeeCC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I used a third party software to expand the partition of my C drive
>(Windows
> XP Pro). It was successful. But after that Windows takes a long time to be
> fully loaded on every reboot. Also, the Windows Start sound is disrupted
> and
> not as smooth as before.
>
> I went to delete some of the start up programs, but still it did not help.
>
> Anyone has a solution to this? Many thanks.
>
>
> Lee