Partitioning in XP

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I have a 80 Gig hard drive and a 20 gig hard drive. The 20 came from my old computer, and I had it in 2 partitions. How can I make it into just one in XP? Do I have to use fdisk from (gasp!) MS-DOS

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you don't have to use fdisk, you can use partition magic.

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I have a 80 Gig hard drive and a 20 gig hard drive. The
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20 came from my old computer, and I had it in 2
partitions. How can I make it into just one in XP? Do I
have to use fdisk from (gasp!) MS-DOS?
 
Under "Control Panel>Adminstrative Tools>Computer
Mangement>Storage\Diskmanagment" you'll see all your drives and partitions
listed. Here you can delete logical drives, create new ones, format, and
all the other things. However, they are destructive commands, just like
fdisk. The help is really *honestly* helpful and will guide you thrugh
whatever process you need.

FWIW, I use my old. slow HD for the swapfile and all the temp dirs. That
frees up the main drive, so it doesn't have to wait for temp writes and
reads. System performace is notably faster.
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Jonathan said:
I have a 80 Gig hard drive and a 20 gig hard drive. The 20 came from my
Click to expand...
old computer, and I had it in 2 partitions. How can I make it into just one
in XP? Do I have to use fdisk from (gasp!) MS-DOS?
 
Jonathan said:
But, is there any FREE way to do it?
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Yes, free at expence of your time. Copy all stuff that you need, from old disk to the new one.
Then open disk manager of XP, delete partitions on the old disk, format it again,
create one partition and move data back to it.
No dos, no partition magic... (gasp)
 
I have read that putting the swap file on a separate hard drive is a good idea. However, if both hard drives are on the same IDE channel, will there still be a performance increase?
 
Your not going to see a performance increase no matter where you put it, the increase is to small to notice.

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Mike said:
I have read that putting the swap file on a separate hard drive is a good idea. However, if both hard drives are on the same IDE
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channel, will there still be a performance increase?
 
Yes, free at expence of your time. Copy all stuff that you need, from old disk to the new one.
Then open disk manager of XP, delete partitions on the old disk, format it again,
create one partition and move data back to it.
No dos, no partition magic... (gasp)
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Good, but with a mistake...
You say to delete partition from old disk, format old disk, then
create a new partition and move the data back to it.

You can't format a HD that hasn't been partitioned. It should read:
1. Copy what you don't want lost
2. Delete old partition(s)
3. Create new partition(s)
4. Format new partition(s)
5. Move files to new partition(s)
 
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