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post #1 of 7
2/23/09 at 4:19am
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I have C and D drives, both with 144 GB each.

Is it possible for me to change that? Cause I'd prefer if D only had 10 GB and C the rest. Cause that's how my home computer is set up.I was told that 10 GB is enough for recovery and the rest should be allocated to the OS.

Also, i'm supposed to have 320GB in all. What is the rest of the 38GB being used for?

Many thanks in advance!
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post #2 of 7
2/23/09 at 7:47am
If you have vista, then its disk manager has the ability to resize your partitions for you (so long as they are ntfs formatted ?? I think.). What you will want to do is transfer all of the files off of your D partition (either to the C partition or to a separate hard drive). Next you will go to the disk manager (right click on mycomputer -> manage ->disk management OR control panel -> admin tools -> computer management -> disk management). Now that there is nothing on your D partition, it is safe to delete it, so delete it by right clicking on it -> Delete Volume (if you were to Shrink Volume, it would shrink it but place it next to the C partition so that you couldnn't expand it). Now that it is deleted, right click on the C partition -> Extend Volume -> pick the new size you want. Once that completes (Let it complete w/o touching your comp!!), you can click on the unallocated portion and make that your new D partition.

If you don't have vista, you can use a program like partition magic or acronis disk director to name just a few.

And http://www.dslreports.com/faq/9716
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post #3 of 7
2/23/09 at 5:11pm
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Originally Posted by freddyspam View Post
If you have vista, then its disk manager has the ability to resize your partitions for you (so long as they are ntfs formatted ?? I think.). What you will want to do is transfer all of the files off of your D partition (either to the C partition or to a separate hard drive). Next you will go to the disk manager (right click on mycomputer -> manage ->disk management OR control panel -> admin tools -> computer management -> disk management). Now that there is nothing on your D partition, it is safe to delete it, so delete it by right clicking on it -> Delete Volume (if you were to Shrink Volume, it would shrink it but place it next to the C partition so that you couldnn't expand it). Now that it is deleted, right click on the C partition -> Extend Volume -> pick the new size you want. Once that completes (Let it complete w/o touching your comp!!), you can click on the unallocated portion and make that your new D partition.

If you don't have vista, you can use a program like partition magic or acronis disk director to name just a few.

And http://www.dslreports.com/faq/9716

Oh Thank you!! I kept tryin to shrink it
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post #4 of 7
2/25/09 at 9:17pm
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Also, i'm supposed to have 320GB in all. What is the rest of the 38GB being used for?

Many thanks in advance!
Its technical. I used to blame hard drive manufacturers but now I just blame Computer Engineers for using false naming conventions. The computer really should refer to data in terms of B, KiB (=1024 B), MiB (=1024^2 B), and GiB (=1024^3 B) cause thats how the data is used. Hard drive manufacturers use B, KB (=1000 B), MB (=1000^2 B), and GB (=1000^3 B). So a GiB (the way the computer refers to data) is more than a GB (the way hard drive manufacturers refer to data). Hence you never have the amount of space listed on the drive. Also, a little room needs to be taken up for MBR and other things but it isn't even close to the amount of space you lose because of false naming conventions.
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post #5 of 7
2/26/09 at 1:03am
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Originally Posted by zzpulp View Post
Its technical. I used to blame hard drive manufacturers but now I just blame Computer Engineers for using false naming conventions. The computer really should refer to data in terms of B, KiB (=1024 B), MiB (=1024^2 B), and GiB (=1024^3 B) cause thats how the data is used. Hard drive manufacturers use B, KB (=1000 B), MB (=1000^2 B), and GB (=1000^3 B). So a GiB (the way the computer refers to data) is more than a GB (the way hard drive manufacturers refer to data). Hence you never have the amount of space listed on the drive. Also, a little room needs to be taken up for MBR and other things but it isn't even close to the amount of space you lose because of false naming conventions.
oh thanks.. lol. that makes sense. gee.

also does anyone know if it's ok to just have one non-partitioned drive? like i deleted drive d and extended c to the whole thing.
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post #6 of 7
2/26/09 at 11:21am
Yes, its fine. People make more partitions so that when they format one partition, data on another partition is unaffected. However, if you aren't trying to separate your data or reformatting many times then you don't need to do this.
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post #7 of 7
2/26/09 at 7:24pm
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Oh thanks alot. I understand now. I thought it would affect the system. thanks much :]
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