Hard drive again

[ken]

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Thanks for the help guys but have
another question. Say I have a hard disk
partitioned and they show up as drive C:
and D:. I remove the partition and D: no
longer shows up but the space on that
drive doesnt show up on C:. How do I add
that space to C:?
Thanks.
KEN

 

[Guest]

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http://www.symantecstore.com/dr/sat2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?V1=674149&PN=1&SP=10023&xid=27674&CID=0&DSP=&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0

(Symantec purchased PowerQuest, including Partition Magic.)

It's not inexpensive, but it does the job.

The free way to do it would be to delete the partitions, define a partition
that's as large as the drive, and format it. The drawback to that is
obvious.

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"Ken" <asken@att.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the help guys but have
> another question. Say I have a hard disk
> partitioned and they show up as drive C:
> and D:. I remove the partition and D: no
> longer shows up but the space on that
> drive doesnt show up on C:. How do I add
> that space to C:?
> Thanks.
> KEN
>

 

[Guest]

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You would have to go to Computer Management (running off memory here, so I
may be a little off) and go to Disk Management. And right click on the grey
area beside your C drive and merge it, or something like that. That can be
risky, I did that before, merged two partitions of a drive that had
previously been split, and it messed up in the process, I lost everything.
Make sure you back up your stuff before you do it.
You could also try Partition Magic, also quite user friendly.
"Ken" <asken@att.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the help guys but have
> another question. Say I have a hard disk
> partitioned and they show up as drive C:
> and D:. I remove the partition and D: no
> longer shows up but the space on that
> drive doesnt show up on C:. How do I add
> that space to C:?
> Thanks.
> KEN
>

 

[Wazza]

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You need to resize the partition that is marked as the C: drive.
You don't say what OS, but chances are you will need to delete C: and
re-partition the entire disk (assuming you only had 2 partitions).
I am not aware of any free utility that will allow you to do this without
losing the data on the drive.
I think Partition Magic might let you do this and keep your system intact.
I'm sure others will give more info.

"Ken" <asken@att.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the help guys but have
> another question. Say I have a hard disk
> partitioned and they show up as drive C:
> and D:. I remove the partition and D: no
> longer shows up but the space on that
> drive doesnt show up on C:. How do I add
> that space to C:?
> Thanks.
> KEN
>