Hard drive again

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Ken

Thanks for the help guys but have
another question. Say I have a hard disk
partitioned and they show up as drive C:
and D:. I remove the partition and D: no
longer shows up but the space on that
drive doesnt show up on C:. How do I add
that space to C:?
Thanks.
KEN
 
You would have to go to Computer Management (running off memory here, so I
may be a little off) and go to Disk Management. And right click on the grey
area beside your C drive and merge it, or something like that. That can be
risky, I did that before, merged two partitions of a drive that had
previously been split, and it messed up in the process, I lost everything.
Make sure you back up your stuff before you do it.
You could also try Partition Magic, also quite user friendly.
 
You need to resize the partition that is marked as the C: drive.
You don't say what OS, but chances are you will need to delete C: and
re-partition the entire disk (assuming you only had 2 partitions).
I am not aware of any free utility that will allow you to do this without
losing the data on the drive.
I think Partition Magic might let you do this and keep your system intact.
I'm sure others will give more info.
 
Hi
Many are praising BootIt NG (aka Bing?).

I am not a fan of symantec as they release a new version ever year, do not
update / fix bugs in current versions, are usually late with new versions
(eg NTFS5 support), charge for support when there is a bug in their product,
have a thoroughly crappy FAQ, tend not to document supported OS for products
IE buy the product and find it refuses to install on XP, and so on and on
and on.

I have a legit copy of drive image - it has some minor bgus. If I click on
the support option on the help menu it takes me to symantic ghost and
invites me to *BUY* a copy, whats more it does not acknowledge the verison
of drive image I have as a valid product for upgrade pricing! After looking
around for the update, I did find one, installed it, and tested it. Well
bowl me over. A backup image of a system partition that used to be 12GB is
now 24GB! Sure they fixed some bugs but rendered the product useless.

I have had bad experience with nortons (now symantic) products before. IE
firewall + av. You could *not* install the av without the firewall. The
firewall was IMHO crap - if you want eye candy you might think its great, if
you want a firewall that gets on with the job and doesn't spend 5 minutes
writing non public *crap* to the registry then I advise to stay away from
it.

The windows version of partition magic is fine. The dos stuff is about as
bad as you can get and is totally unsuitable for anyone that is not 100%
skilled with partitions and disk layouts.

So, all credit to the Bootit NG people. They deserve to get wealthy at
symantics expense.
 
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