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Can I combine two hard disks together?



 
 
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Old March 30th 08, 01:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Steve Hall
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?

I have a Toshiba laptop and it has come with a single 120Gb hard disk.
However it is partitioned into a C drive and an E drive split 50:50. I
don't really need to have two seperate areas in this way and would like to
combine them together to have a single logical drive on the laptop. Can I
do this from within Windows Vista that is installed on the laptop?

Thanks

Steve

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Old March 30th 08, 02:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Jon Pope[_2_]
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?

the e drive as u say is a recovery partition it should b the d drive


"Steve Hall" wrote in message
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I have a Toshiba laptop and it has come with a single 120Gb hard disk.
However it is partitioned into a C drive and an E drive split 50:50. I
don't really need to have two seperate areas in this way and would like to
combine them together to have a single logical drive on the laptop. Can I
do this from within Windows Vista that is installed on the laptop?

Thanks

Steve


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Old March 30th 08, 02:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
DL
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?

Unlikely, the hidden recovery partition would be in the order of 10gb or
less
D is likely the dvd/cd

And if the laptop is ever recovered to origonal configeration then both
partitions would likely be recreated

"Jon Pope" wrote in message
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the e drive as u say is a recovery partition it should b the d drive


"Steve Hall" wrote in message
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I have a Toshiba laptop and it has come with a single 120Gb hard disk.
However it is partitioned into a C drive and an E drive split 50:50. I
don't really need to have two seperate areas in this way and would like to
combine them together to have a single logical drive on the laptop. Can I
do this from within Windows Vista that is installed on the laptop?

Thanks

Steve




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Old March 30th 08, 02:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Rick Rogers
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?

Hi,

Provided that a) the two volumes are contiguous (ie: next to each other) and
b) that E: is not your recovery volume, then all you need do is run disk
manager (diskmgmt.msc) and remove the E: volume. Then expand C: to encompass
the resulting free (unallocated) space. If they are not contiguous, then you
will need third party software to manipulate them so that they are. You can
only expand a volume into free space that is immediately after it, not in
front of it.

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"Steve Hall" wrote in message
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I have a Toshiba laptop and it has come with a single 120Gb hard disk.
However it is partitioned into a C drive and an E drive split 50:50. I
don't really need to have two seperate areas in this way and would like to
combine them together to have a single logical drive on the laptop. Can I
do this from within Windows Vista that is installed on the laptop?

Thanks

Steve


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Old April 1st 08, 03:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Pete Stavrakoglou
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?

"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
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Unlikely, the hidden recovery partition would be in the order of 10gb or
less
D is likely the dvd/cd

And if the laptop is ever recovered to origonal configeration then both
partitions would likely be recreated


I agree, the D:| drive is the CD/DVD. I've got three Toshiba's in the
family, none of them have recovery partitions, they all use recovery disks.


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Old June 1st 09, 01:39 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
SweHomie
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?


HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have two local disk drives C
and D and i have a 500GB HD my C drive is only 49.83GB my D drive is
9.77GB and there is 407.17BG remaing and ive tried to combine them both
but when i go to extend hard drisk its in grey and it will not let me
click it. i do lots of gaming so i need a big harddrive and i cant have
them split up like this it wont let me play so many games on a 48 GB
hard drive any suggestions in what to do?


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Old June 1st 09, 02:38 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Tae Song
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?


"SweHomie" wrote in message
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HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have two local disk drives C
and D and i have a 500GB HD my C drive is only 49.83GB my D drive is
9.77GB and there is 407.17BG remaing and ive tried to combine them both
but when i go to extend hard drisk its in grey and it will not let me
click it. i do lots of gaming so i need a big harddrive and i cant have
them split up like this it wont let me play so many games on a 48 GB
hard drive any suggestions in what to do?


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SweHomie


You have to convert the disks to dynamic first in disk management. I am not
sure I would recommend doing this, if one of the drives dies you could end
up losing data on both drives.

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Old June 1st 09, 02:57 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Mike Hall - MVP
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?

"SweHomie" wrote in message
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HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have two local disk drives C
and D and i have a 500GB HD my C drive is only 49.83GB my D drive is
9.77GB and there is 407.17BG remaing and ive tried to combine them both
but when i go to extend hard drisk its in grey and it will not let me
click it. i do lots of gaming so i need a big harddrive and i cant have
them split up like this it wont let me play so many games on a 48 GB
hard drive any suggestions in what to do?


--
SweHomie



You need to use a program like Acronis Disk Director which will safely
create and merge partitions..


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http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

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Old June 1st 09, 02:58 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Mike Hall - MVP
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?

"Tae Song" wrote in message
news

"SweHomie" wrote in message
...

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have two local disk drives C
and D and i have a 500GB HD my C drive is only 49.83GB my D drive is
9.77GB and there is 407.17BG remaing and ive tried to combine them both
but when i go to extend hard drisk its in grey and it will not let me
click it. i do lots of gaming so i need a big harddrive and i cant have
them split up like this it wont let me play so many games on a 48 GB
hard drive any suggestions in what to do?


--
SweHomie


You have to convert the disks to dynamic first in disk management. I am
not sure I would recommend doing this, if one of the drives dies you could
end up losing data on both drives.



Not a good idea at all..


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Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

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Old June 1st 09, 04:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Ashton Crusher[_2_]
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Default Can I combine two hard disks together?

On Sun, 31 May 2009 20:39:39 -0500, SweHomie
wrote:


HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have two local disk drives C
and D and i have a 500GB HD my C drive is only 49.83GB my D drive is
9.77GB and there is 407.17BG remaing and ive tried to combine them both
but when i go to extend hard drisk its in grey and it will not let me
click it. i do lots of gaming so i need a big harddrive and i cant have
them split up like this it wont let me play so many games on a 48 GB
hard drive any suggestions in what to do?


Here's what I would do if you have sufficient space left on the C
drive. Copy everything on the D drive over to the C drive. Then Back
up the C drive with Ghost or Acronis or a similar program that makes a
full copy suitable for transfer to a new drive. Then using
Acronis/Ghost restore your C drive Image to what's now your D drive.
When you get done every thing will then be on the 500G drive which
will be your C drive and you can throw out the old D drive or use it
for the virtual memory file drive.
 




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