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Old 12-30-2003, 03:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Harddrive Question Please Help :-O

Hello :P I just bought a new computer and was lookin primarily for one with a bigger harddrive than my laptops 15 gb's. And I bought a new Sony computer with Windows Xp with 80 GB of HD. So I set up the computer and such and I go to check a few things to see that the computer in fact does have 80 GB of HD but 15 GB are in the C drive and the 65 leftover is in the D drive, which for me I find utterly odd/confusing I'm not exactly sure what use the D drive is for and I'm wondering if there is anyway I can just transfer all the 65 GB from the D drive to the C drive so I have only 1 drive with all 80 GBs. Sorry if this sounds confusing or if its even possible to do at all. :-P

Thanks for your time! : D! Any help/comments at all is appreciated
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Old 12-30-2003, 03:40 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The only way to do that truely would be to format your drive, set up the partitions as you want them, then reinstall.

Software such as Partition Magic to do this as well.

With XP you can do some manipulation and have the other 65 gigs show up in a folder on your C drive, but that isn't any better for your situation.

You could also just leave the drive the way it is and use the d drive for storing all your other stuff. Other programs you install and data files and leave the C drive for just your OS.
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Old 12-30-2003, 08:38 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Once upon a time long ago (3 years) one could use Partition Magic to repartition your hard drive. But then came the mighty Microsoft and all its activation charm and struck down that ability (well technically you can do it, but its a whole new can of worms to accomplish it) hrdwareguy has it right by saying format and reinstal...last time I was dinking with Partition Magic and XP, the system failed to boot for a rather technical reason and and even more technical explanation is needed to explain the workaround.
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Old 12-31-2003, 06:37 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Partition Magic has worked fine for me in the past without any problems on XP.
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Old 12-31-2003, 09:11 AM   #5 (permalink)
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You can just access the drive from my computer and keeps files stored their. You can make, say for example, Kazaa, used by default a folder located on the D: drive. Once you tell it to store in that location it will always store their unless you tell it different.

And most programs will ask you where you want to install them to. You can create a folder on the D: drive called Programs, and install new programs in their by choosing D:\programs as the install path..

I say you do nothing and use this oppurtunity to ecducate yourself on the windows file system. It will make you a much better user and help you in countless ways in the future..

HowItWorks.com might be a good place to start looking for reading material.
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Old 01-02-2004, 02:02 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Another HUGE benefit for having the drive split is that say you want to format and install a new operating System or do a complete clean install...you can format c: without losing any of the data stored on d: and vice versa.....this is VERY handy
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Old 01-03-2004, 02:01 AM   #7 (permalink)
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You just have one drive partitioned into two sectors...... C & D, The OS and programs go to C drive and things you want to store/save go to the larger D drive, but it's still just one drive.....
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