I'm using Windows XP with Service Pack 1, and have two partitions. C, which is only 2GB, and D, which uses the rest of my disk. Unfortunately, C got full very quickly, and I now need to use programs that will install to no drive letter other than C - programs for which there is no room.Is there any way to simply merge these two partitions, or must I format and delete the partitions?
View 14 RepliesMy friend recently gave me his computer after buying a new one. It's actually pretty decent by totally crippled by viruses and stuff. When he gave it to me, he had Ubuntu and XP installed on it. The XP would no longer start (blue screen) and I couldn't use Ubuntu for what I wanted to do. I reinstalled windows, however I didn't know which partition was Ubuntu and which was the broken Windows. It didn't really matter to me at the time, so I just picked one and overwrote it.Now, I've realized that I made the wrong choice. It claims I have two hard drives in my now working version of Windows: C: and D:. D: is the one I'm acutally using, but it's only 20 GB large while the C: with the bad version of Windows is 150 GB. I don't need any information off of C:, so is there some way I can just delete it and add the extra hard drive space to the partition I actually use?
View 10 Replies View RelatedMy daughter recently acquired a computer with XP Pro and it came with 3.0 GB on the C drive and 1.2 GB on the E drive. It also was in FAT 32 on both partitions. Using the disk management tool I converted all the files to NTFS, so far so good. The C drive was down to 500 MB free and all the space on E drive free. Using the disk management tool I was able to delete the partition for E drive assuming the unused space would go to the C drive. I now have 1.2 GB of unallocated space that I can't get into C drive. I downloaded Partition Manager 6.0 but it couldn't get the space over either.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi partitioned the drive when i first installed win xp. C: was already win98se and i thot i'd keep it around a while just in case., i
had the dual boot workin' fine. but whenever i checked in on ol' win98 i got the error message about...whatever. i didnt care cause i never did have a case wher i needed it. so i just always booted to the winxp, which was the second partitioned, named E: and i figuerd one day i would just lose that win98 and make the whole drive winxp. the occassion arose when E: winxp wouldnt boot, error: corrupted system file. it seemed like a "good day to die" so i loaded win xp (pro) into that first partition, C:,and it just fit but with little room to spare. in fact,not enough to do anything, including loading antivirus. i acn still read everything on the E: logical partition, but i dont get to boot from there. i have a couple big eexternal HDD's oneon that machine, the desktype machine (250GB) and one on the laptop (400GB) which runs win xp. i can resort to moving things around, probably having to re-install a lot, but i have tried re-sizing the C: and E:,using Partition Magic (8.0) to no avail. it makes no changes. i've tried enlarging C: to use up the unused space in E:. when i re-boot,nothing has changed. tried merging the partitions, error is differnt cluster sizes, one is 2k, the other 4k. have tried to change the cluster sizes both ways. still no change.
I have a 20 gb NTFS drive that i partitioned to C: 6gb for system files and E: 14gb for programs. I have a second hard drive for data I: 40gb. The C: drive is getting full. when trying to defragment C:, the report shows a bunch of fragmented files in a path called "/RECYCLED". I cannot seem to find that path anywhere on that drive, so I cannot delete those files! Any advice? I also would like to resize the partitions, will QTparted work for NTFS partitions? OR, any chance I can move my system to the 40gb I: drive (probably not).
View 14 Replies View RelatedMy Windows XP computer has 3 partitions on 1 hard drive. 2 of the partitions is using the NTFS file system and the other 1 is running on the FAT file system which contains my operating system it is only 2gb in size and is now full up (its moaning at me in a ballon popup) I was wondering wheather its possible to merge one of the NTFS partition with the FAT partition without affecting the OS inside. Ive downloaded a program called partition magic as i have heard that will do it but it cant merge NTFS and FAT together
View 4 Replies View RelatedA while back a friend partitioned my hard drive into three different partitions. the one I use is now almost full and I would like to merge the almost-full partition with the next partition, which is completely empty. Can anyone help me with the steps to do that? Thanks in advance. I have a windows xp system with the big service pak installed also. the pc is a dell dimension 4300 with a 1.6 ghz processor and 513 mb of RAM.
View 5 Replies View RelatedUnder my computer, I have two drives, C and D (empty). I have never intentionally partitioned my hard drive into the two drives, and have thought nothing of it until recently when I realised I have only 1GB of space left of the 45GB on the C drive.I was just wondering if there is an easy way of recombining these two drives so that I can have just one big drive back. I have heard that commercial products such as partition magic do the job, but I can't see much point in paying 70 for some software that will only get used once.
View 8 Replies View RelatedXP home edition re-installed, it gave the hard drive three partitions, C, D, and E. C drive has 9.75GB the other two have over 60 GB. I need to put more back to C drive.
View 2 Replies View Related1st post here and I hope someone has answers. THis is new to me. Ihave a 200gb HD. I have it partitioned into 5 partitions. Onepartition for my C: OS, D: Software, E: Games, F: Storage, G:Graveyard. Well I do this so if anything happens to my OS, I canreinstall and all my other info is safe. After the reinstall of myOS, everything was perfect, I had some issues with my G drive andaccess denied but I managed to take ownership. Well I installed someupdates etc last night and did some restarts without any issues. Idecided to do a disk check on G upon next boot up. Well I just bootedup this morning and only my C drive exists now, All my software whichis installed on my D drive is now inaccessable as well as all theothers. I went to Computer Management and it shows the rest of mypartition as 175gb of FREE SPACE?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a 200gb Seagate SATA HD. I have it partitioned into 5 partitions. One partition for my C: OS, D: Software, E: Games, F: Storage, G: Graveyard. Well I do this so if anything happens to my OS, I can reinstall and all my other info is safe. After the reinstall of my OS, everything was perfect, I had some issues with my G drive and access denied but I managed to take ownership. Well I installed some updates etc last night and did some restarts without any issues. I decided to do a disk check on G upon next boot up. Well I just booted up this morning and only my C drive exists now All my software which is installed on my D drive is now inaccessable as well as all the others. I went to Computer Management and it shows the rest of my partition as 175gb of FREE SPACE? Anyone has any ideas? There is no way that the rest of my drive is formatted as I never touched it so I assume it is still there.
View 4 Replies View Relatedi'm running xp proffesional sp2 i'm wanting to know how i can merge my 20gb system drive back into to one. it is currently split into two called: local_disc C - 11.2gb system_sav E - 7.69gb (this drive partition is blank and has been formated) i would like to merge these two partitions into one.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have two partitions set up on my usb thumb drive. On the first partition it is a version of Linux (Slax) that I use for emergency boots the fs is Fat16. On the second, I have a standard Fat32 filesystem. But, when I plug in the drive while in windows, only the first partition shows up. I have made both the partitions bootable.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi have bought a new hard disk and make 3 partitions- C, D ,E drive my C drive only has 10gb and now i want to make downloads and install all to D drive.. i try to move the whole programe files from C to D but fail as some files are either running or not moveable
View 7 Replies View RelatedI tried to increase the size of my C drive by deleting the D drive partition. The D drive was deleted but the C drive size appears the same. How can I now increase the size of the C drive to fully occupy the space that the D drive previously took up. I would like to end up with one large C drive and no partition.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried ghost 2003, the cloning of the larger drive to the smaller one didn't work (too big it said), I cancelled the operation, however, I now have a new partition on my drive, by looking at disk management, I now have cpavilion) D: recovery and this new drive G:VPSGHBOOT. I don't want it anymore. PC's 200 gigs, now it's divided into D:5.32 fat32 c:181.07 ntfs g: 7.00 fat, and also an unallocated 159.97 gigs All these fall under Disk 0: Basic 346.28GB online doesn't make any sense.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFound some very useful info on here so decided to sign up and post a recent problem i encountered with an external hard drive. the hard drive has a capacity of 80GB and came from another pc. there was a 25/55 partition already on it from the old pc. i tried to delete the partition that was 25gb. now i can't find that 25gb at all. when i plug it in to the usb slot i can only see the 55gb partition it used to appear as 2 hard drives in my computer and nothing else. when i use disc management to format it i only see 55gb.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a Thinkpad T43 with Win XP Pro. The 60GB hard drive has two partitions: one is an IBM_PRELOAD(C) and the other is an IBM_SERVICE partition. I would like to duplicate this disk onto a 120GB disk. I have tried to use the Win XP backup Retrospect Express 6.5, but I can't get either program to duplicate the IBM_SERVICE partition.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to partition my new hard drive. Its external. OS is windows XP. I had a look on the net and it looks simple, go to disk management and right click on the drive you want to partition and select 'new partition' This is the problem, i dont have the option to create a new partition. I have formatted my drive to NTFS and there is no data on it. It currently shows one partition the whole size of the drive.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI don't really understand it.I initially used G-parted to partition my 250gb drive into a 100, 75, and 55.Then I tried installing Windows XP SP3 and it says it doesn't recognize them, so I deleted those partitions and made new ones (the same size though) and it asked me to reboot. After I rebooted it prompted me again with Press Enter to install Windows, so I do and it says some crap about how it doesn't recognize any hard drive plugged in.BIOS recognizes the drive and its size.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a friend who's computer has 4 partitions on it. He has no clue how they got there, and I have zero knowledge of partitions. His C drive has like 13gb and is full, his G drive has the most and I think it's like 76gb and then he also has an H and an I.
Someone who was "trying to fix it" copied the C drive and pasted it to all the other drives, which didn't do anything except, well, make copies of everything. I spent a couple hours and just went through folder after folder and made one "KEEP" folder and cut/pasted everything into it. He went and bought a portable hard drive and we'll move everything over to it for safe keeping while we try to get those partitions out.
My question is, would it just be easier to reformat the whole thing? I have all of his docs and pictures, which is the biggest thing for him. He has a Sony set, and has a repair disk and his WinXP number. I have a OEM WinXP disk, so should I just go into the bios, have the computer boot to the CD first, then do a repair or reformat? And at what point do I remove those partitions???
Sometime early next year I will be building a new system. The system will likely have one large hard drive. As of now I will be installing XP Pro. I was curious how everyone else splits up their drive. How big of a partition is generally created for the OS. And do most people partition the remaining space.Now a file architecture question. When non OS applications games, utilities, MS Office, etc.) are installed do most people put then in D:Program Files Or create separate sub-folders for the broad categories and install them in the appropriate sub folder.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have partitioned my hard drive and loaded Windows XP in one partition. How do I set the default to load any programs into the second partition. My intent is to only have the operating system in the first partition.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a pc with Windows 2000 installded and has two partition C and D. Iwould like to backup the whole drive including both partitions and transfer it to a better pc I have, but the new pc of mine has XP installed on it. I already backedup the hard drive to the network file server using windows 2000 default backup wizard, but when I want to open the file on my XP machine, It curupts the system files and next time I restart it crashes. I need to findout a way to backup the hd exactly as is on 2000 and transfer it to Xp.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI currently have 2 partitions on a single hard drive (each one is running xp).The older partition (the one that I want to get rid of) is the primary partition, while the newer one (the one that I want to keep) is the extended partition. Could someone please tell me how to delete the primary partition and make the computer
recognize the extended partition as the primary partition?
When I bought my new pc with XP SP2 I added a second hard drive(FAT 32) that I'd already used for a while in my old pc, and that contains all my data, photo's, music etc. Everything worked fine, but over the past month something strange is happening. From one moment to the other Windows loses sight of that second drive. Sometimes restarting (in every possible way) helps, sometimes not. Sometimes the drive disappears when I'm saving omething to it, sometimes I can save.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have installed 2 different operating systems (xp and vista) on my hard drive on seperate partitions without flagging 1 of them to boot (aka it doesnt boot at all.) I want to completely format the hole thing and just put xp on the 1 hard drive with no partitions.
My problem is that my computers CD drive has broken and it does not have a floppy drive, I want to know if theres any way i can boot a program from a USB flash drive to completely format both partitions so i can install xp (I already know how to boot xp off a USB flash drive.
I have had a 60G external hard drive that has worked flawlessly for 2 years with both my desktop computer running Win98SE, and my newer laptop with Windows XP. This external drive was formatted with FAT 32 and NO PARTITIONS for all 60G. Because I have a Lot of music files and digital pictures, I have filled up the 60G drive, so bought an IOGear 160G external drive. This drive arrived partitioned into 6 partitions, of 20-32G sizes. This is completely wrong for how I want to use the drive. All my mp3 programs requires the library to be all in one volume, so I need 60-80G all in one volume just for music. IOGear support says that Windows XP does not allow volumes any larger than 60G in FAT 32. (This seems crazy since my older drive is all one volume and is FAT 32.
View 6 Replies View RelatedA msg. popped up today saying my C: drive was full.I let it clean it up, but still only have just over 600 MB free out of 15 GB. Only 2.16 GB of this is programs as I have my programs installed on another drive. Looking in my Windows folder, I found 16.8 MB of log (text) files. Can these be removed? Can I turn off whatever is creating them?I downloaded Disk Size Manager after reading some other messages on this site. It says my C: drive is 12,815.60 MB which should be 15 GB. Where is the just over 2 GB that are missing? Windows uses 4,887.88 MB. Documents and Settings is 3,090.28.Is this normal?I wish I could move the programs to my D: drive, but I can't find a way. They are only available on my computer restoration disks and it puts them where it wants to instead of letting me decide where I want them. I tried running a free program called Move It!, but it looks like they are moving but they don't.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have multiple partitions on my HD so that I can have things like the OS and the page file on separate partitions for ease of defrag etc. (OK, haven't done this before and am not sure how smart it was after all)Anyway, I decided to move "My Documents" folder from the C drive to a much larger partition to save fragmentation on C. No big deal, it's easy to do.But here's the kicker... once I'd created a My Documents folder in the larger partition, I decided to click on it and move it to the top of the list of folders, using the My Computer screen.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm at my wits end. I was queried by my computer to clean up my hard drive because it was full. ( I wasn't downloading anything).This seemed very odd to me as I always clean up my hardrive regularly.I usually defrag my hardrive every few weeks and the last time I did it I had 29% free space. Now when I check it I have 0% free space and the hard drive has over 20000 fragmented files, I've never seen it look like this.I ran spyware and came back no threats.Something has filled up my hardrive unexplainable.I've tried a lot of things from system restore to chkdsk.
View 9 Replies View Related