Hard Drive-Split into 3 drives

[omgdrives11]

Ok so my computer is spilt into 3 different drive C: D: and E:, but well taking bottom off to clean out dust and such I only found 1 Hard Drive and was wondering is there any at home way for someone not totally profession with computers to some how merge, or use the second two drives.

 

[G0AOZ]

Well, to start with you need to tell us what operating system you're using.
Secondly, have you looked to see on which partition your operating system is installed?
And thirdly, what else resides on the other two partitions you want to merge, and do those files (if they exist) need to be saved or deleted?

Having said that, assuming you're now ready to delete and merge the unwanted partitions, my choice would be Partition Magic.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[flyboytim]

C: D: and E: == Windows/DOS, and it is in use for some time, hence needing cleaning - "taking the bottom off" indicates a Laptop running XP or Vista?

As long as the C: drive is the active primary boot partition, it may be that the other Drives are a Data partition and a manufacturer's recovery partition, but I am still guessing.

XP and later versions of Windows have a rudimentary graphical partition editor (based on Partition Magic code from about 1990), in the disk management console (right-click on (My)Computer, and find the disk manager under storage. This is capable of shrinking deleting merging, creating and expanding partitions, and changing disk formats.

As well as PM mentioned by Roger, EASEUS Partition Master is a freeware utility capable of similar tasks, but with greater ease and confidence than the windows built in version.

There is also a powerful Windows command-line utility called Diskpart, accessed by start, run, cmd, diskpart, which then opens in it's own console. Diskpart /? shows a list of command-line arguments, and usage help.

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[omgdrives11]

To Roger,
My operating system is Windows Vista Home Premium, my operating system is operated from the C: drive and the other two D: and E: is completely empty, minus a few hidden files that is on all 3 of the drives

And thank you from the both of you, my computer and my friend's comuter both have spilt hard drives, mine a bit better my friends rather stupid, 74 gb run and 200 something gb data drive

 

[omgdrives11]

Thank you again for all your help the program is very easy to use and does a wonderful job went from 120gb of empty useless space to a full 222 gb hard drive , only thing is when the computer booted up and I accessed the C: drive to see it, the recycle bin started recycling the C: drive, just wondering if thats an issue or not

 

[paparazi]

Done now by the sounds of it but one point I was going to add was that manufacturers setting partitions up like this often use one as a recovery and it is likely that this function will no longer work.

Martin

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