I have an 80gig HD that has been partition 10gig local disk(c:) & 70 gigData(D:0 the main one been 10gig I want to un partition it to make it one 80gig but not sure what to do.
bam62 0 Newbie Poster
dlh6213 27 Posting Maven Team Colleague
You would need a third-party program in order to do that, something like PartitionMagic. Make sure your data has been backed up before using any program of this type as things can go wrong.
Are you sure you want only one 80G drive? It's usually better to have at least two for a couple of reasons:
Defragging and searching are faster
If one partition gets a virus, corrupted files or whatever, at least the files on the other partition are somewhat safe.
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
Agreed. I'd move 'My Documents' and your installed programs to the second partition.
cossie2oo8 0 Newbie Poster
my pc is compaq hade problems in the passed when i was stupid an didn no nothing a system recovery took place an my c: drive has all my old music,video's,pictures,etc i carnt find them anywere but only through recover my files V 3.98 (5692) but need to pay for that and i dont use credit cards online ever to risky can any one help me please e-mail is srcosgrove@hotmail.co.uk
cossie2oo8 0 Newbie Poster
and i carnt format my c drive because it has all my windows info on pc got no cd player after i boke it lol no gd me so i carnt put an xp cd in :(
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