I have a computer that I need to reformat and upgrade from windows NT to Windows xp pro. My problem is that whoever set up the pc the first time partitioned the hard drive into a 2 gig and a 10 gig partition installing everything on the 2 gig side of the partition, wich seems like a waste to me. Anyway I was wondering if there is any way to remove that partitions and just make it one big 12 gig c drive. Thank you in advance for your help and advice.
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Partitioning question
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Hi There!
Partition Magic will take care of what you want to do, but I just wanted to point out that there are reasons and benefits to partitioning a hard drive. The major benefit would be that you could store your operating on a partition by itself, your programs on another partition and your data on still another partition. If one of the partitions crashes or gets corrupted you haven't lost everything
If the whole drive crashes well lets hope you have a good backup. There are also organizational as well as performance benefits to partitioning. It is beneficial to give your games/apps there own territory (i.e. partition).
In our organization I use gpedit to prohibit anything being loaded to the c drive. In house, that means all the data gets saved to the server where it can get backed up. In the perimeter offices, without a server, I partition the hard drives. The O.S. goes on the C: drive. The data goes on the D: partition. It makes it easy for them to backup data since all data is stored in a single location. Performance of the machine is improved and because when they reboot the C: drive reimages itself back to my original configuration the O.S. software is secured and stable.
Just a few reasons in favor of partitioning a drive and hoping to explain why the person may have partitioned it in the first place.
Partition Magic will take care of what you want to do, but I just wanted to point out that there are reasons and benefits to partitioning a hard drive. The major benefit would be that you could store your operating on a partition by itself, your programs on another partition and your data on still another partition. If one of the partitions crashes or gets corrupted you haven't lost everything
If the whole drive crashes well lets hope you have a good backup. There are also organizational as well as performance benefits to partitioning. It is beneficial to give your games/apps there own territory (i.e. partition).In our organization I use gpedit to prohibit anything being loaded to the c drive. In house, that means all the data gets saved to the server where it can get backed up. In the perimeter offices, without a server, I partition the hard drives. The O.S. goes on the C: drive. The data goes on the D: partition. It makes it easy for them to backup data since all data is stored in a single location. Performance of the machine is improved and because when they reboot the C: drive reimages itself back to my original configuration the O.S. software is secured and stable.
Just a few reasons in favor of partitioning a drive and hoping to explain why the person may have partitioned it in the first place.
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