topic Re: Simple(?) question about Hard Drive in PCs & Accessories

Simple(?) question about Hard Drive

Shigekixx — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:06:58 GMT

Hello,

I am the owner of the VAIO VGN-SZ2M with 2 x 40GB HDD´s.
Now one of the HDD is full of memory and I dont know how to activate of use
the other HDD realtime...

Thank you for your help.

Shigekixx

Re: Simple(?) question about Hard Drive

Nobody-in-particular — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:45:56 GMT

Hi

Your SZ2 has only one hard drive which has been split into two partitions, C & D drive.

If you C drive my documents folder is large and has been filled with photo's, or documents etc you could start by moving them to your D drive. To do this simply Change the Default Location of the My Documents Folder, see here

The advantage of moving your My Documents folder to d: is that if you need to reinstall windows then you already have most of you documents on the second drive.

Re: Simple(?) question about Hard Drive

Thalamus. — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:59:58 GMT

That's good advice Kai-Zen..

Re: Simple(?) question about Hard Drive

Shigekixx — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:00:52 GMT

Hi Kai-Zen

So if I have only one HD, then how come it is splitted??
Is there any way I could "combine" the C and D drive it into one HD?
So that I have only C Drive...

Re: Simple(?) question about Hard Drive

Thalamus. — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:39:38 GMT

Hi Shigekixx

There are benefits to be gained in having a partitioned drive..

For example if you store your personal data, pictures, etc. on the D drive and a problem occurs with the operating system, the C drive can just be recovered, by following this guide, therefore hopefully, leaving your personal files on the D drive intact..

However if your sure you do not require a partitioned drive you can resize or remove the D partition buy either using a third party program such as Paragon's Partition Manager or by using Sony's Recovery Utility selecting C: & 😧 Drive Recovery (change Partition sizes when you reach point 10, note then if you use the Sony Utility all the files and programs on the C & D drive will be deleted before the original operating system and programs are restored..

It would be a good idea to create a couple recovery disc sets before you make any changes..