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Posted by Shamez214 on Feb-19-2003 03:40:

Hard Drive question....

ok... i have a c, d, & e drive. not seperate hard drives, just that my main hard drive was partitioned into three seperate drives (no idea why or how, it came like this) i was just wondering if there was anyway i can put them back together again so i'd just have one big hard drive, instead of three smaller ones? thanks...

Posted by jon on Feb-19-2003 08:19:

do you need to keep the data on all 3 partitions or is it ok if it gets deleted?

Posted by flystyler on Feb-19-2003 12:27:

Any data you wanna keep i would advise you copy over to another hard drive, and then delete the partitions in dos. Fairly easy to do.

Posted by jon on Feb-19-2003 15:21:

well if he wanted to keep teh data he could invest in partition magic and that is pretty much 99% sucessfull at doin what he wants it to do, though i wud do what fly says and use fdisk in dos and wipe all partitions and make a new one

Posted by Muff2K on Mar-06-2003 01:14:

go with fdisk or partition magic 8

search google for fdisk / partition magic tutorials, they can help you pretty well

Posted by Shamez214 on Mar-06-2003 01:52:

thanks a lot guys for your help... sorry it took so long! haha. and could someone explain how to delete the partitions from DOS? and rename it as one... thats something ive never done before. and btw, i could move all the files to a different hard drive. heres the actual set up on my comp. i have 2 REAL hard drives. one is 40 gig, that is partitioned into 2. c:/ ( 34 gig) and d:/ (6 gig). the other hard drive is 6 gigs, partitioned into 3 drives. e:/ f:/ g:/ (all are 2 gigs.) i want to make the e, f, & g drives into one 6 gig e:/ drive.

sorry if this is really confusing!!! if it would be easier to explain in AIM, my SN is Shamez214. thanks for the help!!!

Posted by arj1o1 on Mar-06-2003 07:51:

quote:
Originally posted by Muff2K
go with fdisk or partition magic 8

search google for fdisk / partition magic tutorials, they can help you pretty well

if u use fdisk it will delete everything
partition magic will do nothing to the data

Posted by victor on Mar-10-2003 06:17:

quote:
Originally posted by Shamez214
thanks a lot guys for your help... sorry it took so long! haha. and could someone explain how to delete the partitions from DOS? and rename it as one... thats something ive never done before. and btw, i could move all the files to a different hard drive. heres the actual set up on my comp. i have 2 REAL hard drives. one is 40 gig, that is partitioned into 2. c:/ ( 34 gig) and d:/ (6 gig). the other hard drive is 6 gigs, partitioned into 3 drives. e:/ f:/ g:/ (all are 2 gigs.) i want to make the e, f, & g drives into one 6 gig e:/ drive.

sorry if this is really confusing!!! if it would be easier to explain in AIM, my SN is Shamez214. thanks for the help!!!

OK... no prob... create a folder and copy all the data from the secnd hdd to the first one...

go into dos... fdisk and then wala !!! u have only one E: !!!

Posted by Shamez214 on Mar-12-2003 02:49:

quote:
Originally posted by victor
OK... no prob... create a folder and copy all the data from the secnd hdd to the first one...

go into dos... fdisk and then wala !!! u have only one E: !!!

duhhhh... im stupid i guess? i go into the c:/ promt, rite? and then what the hell is fdisk? explain it to me as if i were 5 years old. haha... thanks again!

Posted by sake on Mar-13-2003 15:51:

..change the boot to floppy..
..put in a boot disk for ur os..
..when rebooted - type 'fdisk'..
..delete the partitions..
..create new one..
..done ..