Albert47

Im am doing a clean up on my future mother in laws computer.

Now ive come across something that ive never seen before!!

The 60 gb hard drive has been split into two sections.

The first section is HDD C: drive which is the standard drive with 22gb cap

The second is HDD DATA D: with a 38gb cap. I dont know where its come from or hows it has got there?

How do I combine the two to make it one drive??

There is nothing on the HDD Data D: of any importance.

so it it just a case of deleting it, within the "my computer" icon

any advice welcome

boxst

Really you need a piece of software like partition magic to do it without losing the operating system.

Steve

Albert47

Thanks for the quick response Steve.

The computer uses the first (C partition more so surely the if i delete the D: partition it wont make a difference.

Or am i barking up the wrong tree?

Adam

djuk

You can delete the D partition without impacting the operating system on drive C but you won't reclaim the space you deleted.

Sonic'

As Boxst said you need something like Partition Magic, or a better one and much cheaper is Partition Manager to 'add' the space to the C drive

Personally I would leave it as a D drive, I do this and save all my stuff to the D drive, so I know where all my info is for backing up etc

MisterMelon

iTrader: (3)

not really a big problem as sonic in the post above said, keep it there and use it to back up your things. Save your music, films documents all to that so if windows happened to die on the C:\ partition and had to be wiped clean then the Data on D:\ wouldn't get lost.

Melon.

Fuzz

One thing to mention on most shop bought PC's is that it is partitioned because it stores the "backup" OS on there.
That's why you don't get a full OS disc to reinstall stuff with.
Your recovery CD you get just tells the pc to format C: and then copy D: over to C: (basically)


Andy

Shark Man

For old schoolers its actually the correct way of organising data:

Software on one drive, Data on teh other (or partition in this case).

My Advice; Ain't broke, don't fix...unless you've ran out of space on the one partition.

Tuts

Just point my documents to the d drive and tell her to only ever save anything to my docs. That way if you ever need to reinstall just point my docs to D again and everything is there. She doesn't even need to understand how it works then.