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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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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 ... 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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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 ... the e drive as u say is a recovery partition it should b the d drive "Steve Hall" wrote in message ... 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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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. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Steve Hall" wrote in message ... 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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Can I combine two hard disks together?
"DL" address@invalid wrote in message
... 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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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? -- SweHomie |
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Can I combine two hard disks together?
"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. |
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Can I combine two hard disks together?
"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 need to use a program like Acronis Disk Director which will safely create and merge partitions.. -- Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/ |
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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.. -- Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/ |
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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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