-=PCTechTalk=- Re: partition Question
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:10:53 -0400
Steve,
Under normal circumstances, I would tell you to look for a function that
allows you to Merge and then, Merge C with D. Assuming you still want the
ability to use the files on the hidden drive, don't even touch that answer.
Somewhere on your main drive (C:), there's an option that allows the OS
to get to at least one file on the hidden partition. This allows the system
to get driver files and such from it as needed. It also allows yiou to
create a Restore disk and do certain other types of functions that require
the use of the files on that drive. Since the drive is hidden (and has no
drive letter assigned to it), it must refer to the drive volume by its
location among all of the other drive volumes. Specifically, it will be
seen as the third partition within the first physical drive. If you change
that relationship by merging your C & D drives, the link to the hidden
partition will be lost. The only way to keep that relationship would be to
give nearly all of the space currently devoted to the D drive to your C
partition, but keep D around.
The way to approach this would be to move everything that's on your D
drive over to your C drive. Then, fire up your partitioning software (the
one built into Windows won't work for this). Select the D drive and then
select Resize from the menu. Grab the far left border of the D drive's
image and slide it almost all the way to the right, leaving maybe about 20MB
and click OK. The image should change to show you the results and you
should see the area to the left of the tiny D drive shown as Unallocated
space. Next, select the C drive and then Resize. Grab the far right border
of that image and drag it all the way to the right to swallow up all of the
unallocated space. When you next click OK, you should see a much larger C
drive and a tiny D drive along with the hidden E drive. If it looks like
what I just described, the only thing left to do is to Commit those changes
to the actual drive. Different partitioning apps use different controls for
doing this, so you'll have to look around to find it. Once selected, you'll
be asked to review the changes and click another OK button to proceed. The
app will then tell you that it must reboot in order to commit the changes to
the drive. Go ahead and let it do so. When it reboots a second time,
you'll boot into Windows.
If you get 'cold feet' at any time during the procedures leading up to
the Commit, don't worry. Nothing actually happens to the drive until you
commit. Just back out of the program to quit or use the Undo function to go
back to the beginning and start from scratch. We're right here if you come
up with any questions. :O)
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Aiello" <deacondeamon@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "PCTT" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 11:01 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- partition Question
> Hi All
> I'm running an Acer laptop with Vista Home Basic /sp1. There is 1 hard
> drive on it divided into 3 partitions. 1 is hidden and holds the
> reformat
> OEM, no cd's came with it. The other 2 are divided into equal parts "C"
> and
> "D", appox 31.4 gigs. I would like to make this one big drive of appox 62
> gigs.
> Not sure how to do this and the help files are not all that clear to me.
> I can read how to do something and still not get it, but show me once and
> I'm ok. Do I remove the partition and just add what ever I want the "C"
> drive?
> Steve
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