Unpartitioning my hard drive

GrandslammerBD · 05-26-2008, 09:07 PM

Ok so. My Seagate Ultra ATA100 120 GB Hard Drive that came with my computer was partitioned. It had a D Drive that was backup information and it had about 50 GB on it. Then there was the E Drive that was a recovery drive that will allow me to restore my computer to its original configuration. That came with about 5 GB. Then last but not least my Local C Drive had about 60 GB. Well anyways, I deleted the D and E Drives thinking that the information would go into the C Drive.(DONT KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING) but thats not what happened. I only had the C Drive with 60 GB. So I created a logical drive that contains 50 GB of space and formatted it. I would like to know if I can merge the logical drive into the Local C Drive so that I can have a C Drive with 120 GB. If this is not possible then how can I have all 120 GB of space on my C Drive only without partitions. THANX!!!

MD Titanium 8000 XL from Medion
MSI 648 Max Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 2.66 GHZ with 512K L2 Cache and 533MHZ FSB
GeForce TI 4200 AGP upgraded to Radeon 9550 AGP
256 MB of DDR RAM upgraded to 1.5 GB of DDR RAM
Seagate Ultra ATA100 120 GB Hard Drive
250 Watt ATX Power Supply with 8A and 12V

**BCCOMP** · 05-26-2008, 10:00 PM

Hi
You could use Diskpart.exe
Here is a link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590
This is very tricky to use, but it does work.
Do you have a backup of your C: drive, due to the fact if you do not do this correctly you will loose you C: drive.
You could also use a third party program such as Acronis, Gparted.

05-26-2008, 09:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
GrandslammerBD Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 188 OS: Windows XP	Unpartitioning my hard drive Ok so. My Seagate Ultra ATA100 120 GB Hard Drive that came with my computer was partitioned. It had a D Drive that was backup information and it had about 50 GB on it. Then there was the E Drive that was a recovery drive that will allow me to restore my computer to its original configuration. That came with about 5 GB. Then last but not least my Local C Drive had about 60 GB. Well anyways, I deleted the D and E Drives thinking that the information would go into the C Drive.(DONT KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING) but thats not what happened. I only had the C Drive with 60 GB. So I created a logical drive that contains 50 GB of space and formatted it. I would like to know if I can merge the logical drive into the Local C Drive so that I can have a C Drive with 120 GB. If this is not possible then how can I have all 120 GB of space on my C Drive only without partitions. THANX!!! MD Titanium 8000 XL from Medion MSI 648 Max Motherboard Intel Pentium 4 2.66 GHZ with 512K L2 Cache and 533MHZ FSB GeForce TI 4200 AGP upgraded to Radeon 9550 AGP 256 MB of DDR RAM upgraded to 1.5 GB of DDR RAM Seagate Ultra ATA100 120 GB Hard Drive 250 Watt ATX Power Supply with 8A and 12V

05-26-2008, 10:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
BCCOMP Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New York Posts: 7,011 OS: Win XP SP3 / Windows 7 Beta / Open Suse My System	Re: Unpartitioning my hard drive Hi You could use Diskpart.exe Here is a link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590 This is very tricky to use, but it does work. Do you have a backup of your C: drive, due to the fact if you do not do this correctly you will loose you C: drive. You could also use a third party program such as Acronis, Gparted. __________________ PC Wizard \| Everest \| Power supply info \| Memtest86+ PC Running Slow Speedfan