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748091 2009-02-14 22:58:00 My 80gb hard drive in my laptop is almost full.
The c: drive is almost full
but the d: drive has 16gb free

I know I only have one hard drive (I have opened my laptop up to prove it) but how can i merge them back together and just create a C: disk
Tomo (14561)
748092 2009-02-14 23:04:00 I would say you cant, the other partition is probably the recovery disk/cd partition

If its the recovery partition, you could probably create the cds / dvds from it, then wipe it.

Only thing is, you wont be able to restore it (unless you use the cds/dvds). But then, it may recreate the partition anyway (If you do this)
Speedy Gonzales (78)
748093 2009-02-14 23:30:00 You probably can't merge them as C is your windows drive and D is your data drive holding docs pics etc merging would delete data. You might also have a small partition as a recovery partition as well like Speedy said. Your best option would be buy a bigger HDD and clone the old one onto the new as then the new partitions on the new HDD would be bigger gary67 (56)
748094 2009-02-14 23:38:00 You could try resizing it with Disk Management if you have vista, or Gparted or Easeus Partition Manager Blam (54)
748095 2009-02-14 23:56:00 I do have vista but how i am i suppose to resize the partition

Also i don't want to buy a hard drive
Tomo (14561)
748096 2009-02-15 00:00:00 You do it in disk management wherever this is

If that doesnt work, you'll have to uninstall some programs / delete files you dont need. Or use ccleaner. See how much it can remove
Speedy Gonzales (78)
748097 2009-02-15 00:03:00 Run>Diskmgmt.msc

Shrink D, then expand C.
If it only lets you shrink 1gb max, then download the trial of perfect disk, run the Smart defrag, then you should be able to shrink it more.

If that still doesn't work, get gparted, burn it to a CD and boot from the CD then partition it
Blam (54)
748098 2009-02-15 00:07:00 Or, move what you need from D: to C:, and get rid of D: altogether. :D pcuser42 (130)
748099 2009-02-15 00:21:00 D: is now shrunk. Problem is that it will not let me expand C:

at the moment i have no room to move all my D: files to C:
Tomo (14561)
748100 2009-02-15 01:14:00 i don't know if this will help

but when i look closer there is a green bubble around D: and Free space
Tomo (14561)
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