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| Thread ID: 39732 | 2003-11-15 18:34:00 | Remove hard drive | sam m (517) | Press F1 |
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| 192217 | 2003-11-15 18:34:00 | Hi, Friend has commissioned me (free of course) to clean up his laptop. Not intending to do a reinstal of XP just getting rid of the rubbish that he has accumulated. His laptop was used by another for a short while and when he got it back there is an extra 10GB hard drive created which had been used for storage of files. Therefore there are two drives C: (10GB) and D: (6GB) My friend does not want this 2nd drive at all. (It is actually the C: drive we want to delete) I am wondering what is the easiest way to remove this. I thought I read something similar here that if I simply delete C: and therefore all it's contents then reboot then XP would 'reshuffle' so that the drive D: would therefore become C: and the size would increase to 16 GB. I also need to make sure that the contents of D: are maintained. Well this is the goal anyway ;) Once I have done this then I was going to go through usual clean up with spybot/adaware and defrag. Any ideas? thanks sam m |
sam m (517) | ||
| 192218 | 2003-11-15 19:18:00 | What you're after it a re-partitioning tool such as Partition Magic. That will allow you to re-size you C: drive so it "overthrows" your D: drive (Once everthing you want kept is on your C:). AFAIK there is no free tool out there that'll do it for you non-destructively. Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 192219 | 2003-11-15 21:42:00 | why not just format c: and reinstall. you can use the 6 gig partition as its ment to be used. sorry but your friend is better off learning how to use partitions. they do come in handy :) |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 192220 | 2003-11-15 23:25:00 | > > sorry but your friend is better off learning how to > use partitions. they do come in handy :) Agreed, but to quote him, "I only use it for music or porn, that's it" Anything that involves work or thinking is a waste to him. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 192221 | 2003-11-15 23:28:00 | Then tell him/her to use the second partition to store all important files on, such as My Documents. That way if a system crash happens, and he cant get access to the C: Drive (Well.. Its 98 so we could use MS-DOS/Boot Floppy) then its all backed up on the D: drive :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 192222 | 2003-11-15 23:44:00 | leave it as it is and save the data mp3s and whatever to D: that way if anything hapens to the C: drive at least no songs etc are lost | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 192223 | 2003-11-16 04:31:00 | >Agreed, but to quote him, "I only use it for music or porn, that's it" >Anything that involves work or thinking is a waste to him. take away his pc and give em a cardboard box to play with :^O criky if he has the brains to download mp3 and porn he can certainly tell the difference between c and d drive. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 192224 | 2003-11-18 20:57:00 | Make a short cut to his folders on the D: drive on the desktop i am sure that he can figure out how to click on it lol | kiwibeat (304) | ||
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