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Hard Disk Partition?

gosimps33 — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:30:49 GMT

Hello, I have just bought a sony Desktop RZ504 and i have it all up and running, but i have noticed that the 250Gb hard disk has been partititioned by default. Drive C/ which is 27Gb and Drive D/ which is 204Gb. I would like to know if it is possible to delete this partition and just have the one main Drive C/ , as i would like to install a second hard disk and also only having free 20Gb on drive C/ is not nearly enough drive space as some programs install by default on drive C/ with no option to put it on a different drive, Thank in advance

Re: Hard Disk Partition?

seb21__ — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:36:35 GMT

If you make a system recovery, you can configure the partition size. But it's better if you use one partition for data and one for programs.

Re: Hard Disk Partition?

Tillo63 — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:17:19 GMT

I don't suugest to do that !
But if you want you can use partition manager by Symantec that avoid any loss of data.

Ciao

Re: Hard Disk Partition?

rich912 — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:54:30 GMT

I would suggest that you use Partition Magic to increase the size of your C drive but still maintain the D drive.
It is not necessary to delete the D drive as any new drive that you install will automatically be assigned a new letter. Available drive allocation is from A to Z.

Re: Hard Disk Partition?

kee-lo_ — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:57:38 GMT

Back up, thats whats important here.
Put it on DVD or another hard disk.
Don't risk it!
I have first hand knowledge of messing up with Partition Magic

Re: Hard Disk Partition?

seb21__ — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:44:32 GMT

ROFLMFAO

Partition Magic and the partition manager by Symantec are shareware and you must pay it. I you use Acronis Partition Expert 2003(freeware version, which is two years old).

I you don't have any software to configure the size of a partition. Then the only way is to use your recovery DVD!

Re: Hard Disk Partition?

kee-lo_ — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:55:58 GMT

No matter what program, should still back up.

Re: Hard Disk Partition?

robpaxton — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:16:45 GMT

The easy solution is to install the new hard disk, transfer any data that needs to be kept to the new drive, then perform a recovery on the boot drive and remove the unwanted partition at the same time.