Computer help: How to Unpartition C and D Drive?
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by emogirlsmakegoodpets - 6/13/07 11:58 PM In reply to: The answer ... by Kees Bakker
I made a very large mistake that is eating at my brain I only wanted to partition 20 gigs of my drive for feisty fawn the newer unbuntu well its not exactly newer but I like it anyway thats not the point the reason I made the mistake is because in on vista and I cant run command lines properly yet I double partitioned so I have my unbuntu drive as well as 2 windows drive and I can not figure how to combine the 2 windows drive the major problem is my back up somehow managed to get a huge scratch looks like I should have backed up my back up once again not the point the point is I wished I would have stayed with xp -.- anyone got an idea how to fix this i'm not in to big of hurry I alreay redirected all info to the proper drives if you can drop some info to me at my email emogirlsmakegoodpets@yahoo.com
Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive?
by vze4p6c2 - 9/15/04 8:08 PM In reply to: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by jsmooyIts impossible, Two drives work seperatly. Just get a new hard drive. Get a 60GB for $ 30. SHould be enough..
jsmooy said 2 partitions (not 2 physical drives)
by FrankQTran - 9/15/04 11:00 PM In reply to: Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by vze4p6c2So, yes he could and like Bob said PartitionMagic 8.0 will do the job. I owned a copy of PartitionMagic 3, 5, 6, 7 then 8 (right before it merged to Symantec) and I was very pleased with the software.
jsmooy,
However if this is a one time job, I would suggest you to get the freeware called Partition Manager at http://www.ranish.com/part/
A words of caution, backup all your sensitive data prior to merge these two partition together.
Regards,
Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive on a VAIO
by Janaan - 9/17/04 5:22 AM In reply to: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by jsmooyI used PM8, which these people seem to be blindly recommending.
I lost everything on my VAIO and had to use the recovery CDs.
Same thing happened to my PC.
Would you like to buy my copy of PM8? Be glad to sell it to you - I can't take it back, and the people/company who put it out will not respond.
Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive on a VAIO
by Mark5019 - 9/17/04 5:49 AM In reply to: Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive on a VAIO by Janaanwell my friend im not blind ive used it and higly recomend it you have a problem with your system not pm
dont go ofending the people here that can help you
wise man says dont crap where you sleep 
(NT) I am not blind either and I highly recommend it too
by FrankQTran - 9/17/04 6:36 AM In reply to: Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive on a VAIO by Mark5019Not a question of "vision".
by mpmacal - 9/18/04 3:28 PM In reply to: (NT) I am not blind either and I highly recommend it too by FrankQTranYikes! I was on the MS XP forum and saw the same arguments regarding SP2, that you folks are making for PM.
1. Proposing that software that works for ME must also work for YOU is nonsense. Your computer and my computer are as different as a Great Dane and Beagle.
2. We should not be so quick to preach "You should know better". Why do you think he came to a forum to get advice?
3. Anytime ANYONE gives you advice on modifications to the file system, put your seatbelt on. All sorts of variations that the advisor cannot foresee, may affect your results:
- file system security settings and encyptions.
- drivers
- file system quota settings
- BIOS (Yep... Some BIOS pkgs do not play nice with 3rd party file system modifications or "system accelerators").
- and stuff I can't think of.
Nothing I said here implies that PM is not a wonderful software package... I am just trying to keep a sense of reality regarding its use.
Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive on a VAIO
by dragonlen - 9/24/04 3:33 AM In reply to: Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive on a VAIO by JanaanIf you were using PM8 and lost your info on 2 seperate PC's then you connot follow directions properly. These programs work extremely well and when they don't it's the operator making mistakes by not reading and following all the directions. Sorry for your loss.
Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive?
by jimdandy45 - 9/17/04 5:28 AM In reply to: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by jsmooyThe real issue first is to determine if you really have TWO PARTITIONS on ONE DRIVE or TWO physical DRIVES with ONE PARTITION each.
IF you have two separate physical drives, you won't be able to merge them onto one partition or change the size of the partitions beyond the actual max size of the individual drive. - unless you have an O/S, etc to support either software or hardware RAID (and that's a whole 'nother ballgame).
If you have one drive with two partitions, you really DON'T want to unpartition the two drives. The operation system and programs wouldn't know where to find some things, expectioning them to be on D: unless you reinstall the OS and applications after you did this. And to do so would likely require you to FDISK and format the drive which means you would lose everything and have to reinstall the OS and all programs/data.
Whatever you decide to do, make sure you do a backup first so that you can recover. And read the directions and understand them completely before you install and run any of the programs that allow you to resize the partitions.
The suggestion to use Partition Magic or similar programs will allow you to RESIZE the existing partitions so you that you can make C: larger (and therefore D; would be smaller). Then you won't have to transfer data from one to the other.
Other possibilities:
1. Software that would allow you to compress data that is not used often to free up space. Or use compression on the drive to give the effect of a larger drive than you actually have.
2. Redirect your "My Documents" to drive D: and any others that can be.
3. Often when you install software you are asked where you want to install it, and you can tell it to put it in a directory on the D: drive. Some space will still be required on the C: drive, but usually much less.
Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive?
by normael - 9/17/04 5:13 PM In reply to: Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by jimdandy45Use a Windows 98 boot disk when booting. When you get the command prompt (A:/)type in Fdisk and delete any unwanted partitions. Close down then restart and format C:/ drive......Dave
I doubt that's what you're looking for.
by tricky77puzzle - 1/17/07 7:53 PM In reply to: Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by jimdandy45We're looking on HOW to un-partition two partitions of a drive, not how to work AROUND it.
Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive?
by nelwood - 9/17/04 5:31 AM In reply to: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by jsmooyAs you are aware, programs like Partion Magic can be
used to combine the two partions, but they will do
nothing to to fix all of the links and references to
files on the drive letter that will be removed.
Editing the Registry can be a daunting task. This is
something you should consider if you have installed
progams to the D: drive.
Yes, we can...
by FrankQTran - 9/17/04 6:32 AM In reply to: Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by nelwoodPartitionMagic has "DriveMapper" (for WIN9X) and "Change Drive Letter" (for WINNT/XP) option to cope with that problem.
Regards,
Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive?
by sbi1406 - 9/17/04 5:43 AM In reply to: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by jsmooyto kill the partition you have to completly empty the drives and start over,this will invole a format after everthing is redone. After you save everthing, you use a program in dos called fdisk, this is a very confussing and straight logic program which can drive even the best of us nuts for awhile till we remember how to use it##
the main reson for 2 partition is safty from viruses, almost all bug will attack C drive, there for if you store all of your info on D and do get a bad bug, you can still reformat c and reload the main programs and never loose
all teh stuff you saved and created, I use a mim of 3 partition and have my old standby with drives c to i
plus smaller drives will hold more small files than on a large drive, te alocation section are smaller . a 100K file will only tie up 1- 128K sector not a 512!
"2 partition is safty from viruses,"
by R. Proffitt - 9/17/04 5:54 AM
In reply to: Re: How to Unpartition C and D Drive? by sbi1406
This is urban legend.
Take that statement to the Virus and Security Forum and see how the moderators answer.
As to sector sizes, I think you need to re-research that because... sector sizes for almost all PCs are 512 bytes. HOWEVER, CLUSTER sizes are an entirely other matter. Fat16, Fat32, NTFS all do this differently and I have this 160GB drive in one partition and the cluster size is... 4096 bytes.
CHKDSK output is:
160079660 KB total disk space.
101238848 KB in 78800 files.
22552 KB in 3972 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
194292 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
58623968 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
40019915 total allocation units on disk.
14655992 allocation units available on disk.
Take some time to research these issues in depth.
Bob
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