how to combine two logical drives??

[jkstum]

Two years ago when I put this system (desktop) together I created a c: and d: drive on the same HDD. Now the C: is full. I have a blank d: logical drive. How do I combine them and utilize the free space?

I have tried deleting the d: drive and it just states that the space is unallocated free space; it does not add it to the space that the c: drive has.

See screen shot at

http://www.stums.org/temp/hdd.jpg

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks. JKSTUM

 

[RCorrigan]

A 3rd party app like Partition Magic will do that.

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[Frank4d]

Bootit NG >>

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

is an excellent freeware solution. I was somewhat confused by the "Slide" option (enlarges or shrinks a partition and makes another partition smaller or larger by the same amount).

 

[gargoyle47]

I have to ask are you using C:drive for both Operating System and data (Photo, mp3, etc...) ?

If your think about what happens when you have a system crash and you have format and reinstall your operating system.

How do you get the important stuff off a corrupt partition?

I have used a multi partition system since Win95 and in fact some of the photos are from that time frame. I alway keep the important stuff separate from the operating system that way it was alway safe. If I had a system crash where I had to reload the operating system the important stuff was safe.

Sorry I am rambling on but I just do not understand why people want to have one partition. With data and operating system mixed.

Of course you have not answer my question yet but I just wanted you to give some thought to what you are about to do.

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[edfair]

There are also some pitfalls in combining them Partition magic does wonders, used it today for a customer, but you can get into filesystem limitations that cause grief. Tell us what you have and we probably can give suggestions.

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[wasisnt]

I would just use the D drive as a seperate drive and keep documents etc on there. That way if Windows dies you can just wipe out the C drive and all your data will be safe on the D drive.

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[maxthedork]

If you're using an OS that supports NTFS5 (such as XP or 2003), you could convert the disk from Basic to Dynamic (it's a one-way conversion, so really decide whether you want to do this!), then create a new logical drive and combine the two drives as a RAID-0 set. That will combine the space in both logical drives, and the first will fill up before it puts any data in the second. It's kind of odd to do it that way but it avoids having to deal with a third-party product like Partition Magic. By the way, I do highly recommend getting Partition Magic, because it's a powerful and very useful tool.

 

[MonkeyX]

just a thought max but i recall windows not likeing to convert the active drive into a dynamic disk. I could be completely and utterly wrong though.