partitions on hard disk drives

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i have just got a new system from a friend. on looking through the system it
seems that the maxtor 120GB hdd has been partitioned off so as to get two
drives just over 57GB, how do i get this partiton to move or disapear?
answers in laymans terms please i'm not a rocket scientist many thanks for
your time and effort. steve
 
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i have just got a new system from a friend. on looking through the
system it seems that the maxtor 120GB hdd has been partitioned off so
as to get two drives just over 57GB, how do i get this partiton to
move or disapear? answers in laymans terms please i'm not a rocket
scientist many thanks for your time and effort. steve
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Check with your friend. Ask if he/she created the extra partition, or
whether it came that way as a new system. It is possible that the second
partition is the supplier's system restore partition, containing all
info/files necessary to reinstall Windows and bundled applications if
things go bad with the main system partition

I expect you may get better advice from the experts here, but you should
get this info from your friend anyway
 
wriggs1210 said:
i have just got a new system from a friend. on looking through the system
it
seems that the maxtor 120GB hdd has been partitioned off so as to get two
drives just over 57GB, how do i get this partiton to move or disapear?
answers in laymans terms please i'm not a rocket scientist many thanks for
your time and effort. steve
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To be on the safe side, what does the 2nd partition contain/what's it used
for?
Dave
 
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Check with your friend. Ask if he/she created the extra partition, or
whether it came that way as a new system. It is possible that the second
partition is the supplier's system restore partition, containing all
info/files necessary to reinstall Windows and bundled applications if
things go bad with the main system partition
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Uh, since the two parts are equal in size, I doubt if one is the
vendor's sys.restore part.

Using a sys.restore part is a cheap -- and, IMHO, poor -- alternative
to a sys.recovery CD/DVD.
 
Why do you want to remove it / combine with the primary?

You can only do so using a third party utility, eg Partition Magic or by
completely deleting the partitions using the winxp cd and then clean
installing
**NB You will lose all data and applications**
 
Bob Willard said:
Uh, since the two parts are equal in size, I doubt if one is the
vendor's sys.restore part.

Using a sys.restore part is a cheap -- and, IMHO, poor -- alternative
to a sys.recovery CD/DVD.
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Doesn't matter. What does matter is what the 2nd partition's purpose is for
purposes of this thread.
Dave
 
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Doesn't matter. What does matter is what the 2nd partition's purpose
is for purposes of this thread.
Dave
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Perhaps your friend kept the C: drive for the exclusive use of the
Operating System and Program Files, with the D: drive set aside for
personal files and sundries such as music/image/video files. Then, if the
OS - Windows perhaps - becomes corrupt or damaged in some way, a format
with reinstall can be performed without affecting the non system/program
items on the personal partition. In my view, if one has sufficient disk
space, this is an excellent idea. Keep the extra partition for that purpose

Have you asked friend why the disk was partitioned? Perhaps he kept another
OS such as Linux on that partition. Do ask him, but as it's now your
machine I still believe you should keep it for your personal data
 
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