how do i take the dividing wall between my c drive and d drive out to give me more space?

Answer 1

Mostly good info in previous answers.

First repartitioning will not add any noticable amount of space unless it was partitioned with empty space.

Second if they are two seperate hard drives you cannot partition them into a single space in windoze. With Linux you can use LVM partitions and combine the two drives into one logical drive as you would see it. You can also resize on the fly without rebooting. No such system under windoze.

Third you probably want that D drive. Store data on it. If you use windoze eventually it will die. When it does it is best to do a wipe and load rather than try to fix it most of the time. You can do a wipe and load on the C drive losing no valuable data except for bookmarks if you have a D partition to put all your data on and do so religiously.

Have you looked in your temp dirs? They often fill up HDs on windoze with ages old clutter that never seems to go away. I've seen as much as 20 gigs used up in a temp dir before.

Patition magic is not free but is a good program to allow you to edit partitions non-destructively.

Parted is a free program to do the same. Gparted or qtparted provide the same functionality for free. It only runs under Linux I think but luckily this is easily solved. Download the Knoppix ISO. parted and gparted come default with the Knoppix distro. Burn the ISO as a CD image and then reboot to knoppix. Choose gparted from system tools. The interface is pretty intuitive and warns you before you do anything destructive. Same features and a similer interface to partition magic.

When you go to knoppix click on the American/English flag for the English version of the website. The default is in German.

Answer 2

This is called "partitioning" and usually requires a program to repartition the drive like Partition Magic. You can find free utility programs which can do this or buy one at your favorite PC store. Removing the partition will not give you more space, it will just adjust where it is. It will make the C: drive larger but will lose space or eliminate the D: drive, all the programs will be on the C: drive.

Answer 3

If you are refering to what most peoples d drive is, you can't as that is your cd rom. Its a completely different thing to the hard drive, (normally called c). If you have divided your hard drive into 2 partitions, called c and d (renaming the cd rom drive), off the top of my head i think its
My Computer
Right click on c drive and there should be a bit that says manage drives
In there, there should be a bit to remove partition.

Having never done it, I can only be that specific. But I used to be an IT trainer, built my own pc and took pc engineering!

Answer 4

You need more space on one of the drives I quess. Well if you have only one Hard Disk with 2 partitions C and D, the "resize" can be done easy using software like Partition Magic with only a "drag and drop" of a mouse... (more or less)...On the other hand if you have 2 Hard Disks mapped as drive C and D... you should buy a bigger one...:D.

Answer 5

Its known as a partition

In essence you will not gain more space - you will only increase the size of the C drive but will loose your D drive.

You need a piece of software called "partition magic" which allows you to resize and manage disk partitions

Answer 6

there is a software available called Nortron Partion Magic Pro.U can use it in within ur OS or in Dos-mode.But 1st do backup all ur data on drive D otherwise it will all be gone.All u have 2 do is run the software & delete the partition D & then the extended partition.then u just have 2 resize ur c drive & thats it.U have more Drive C space...

Answer 7

You will need to reformat your Hard Drive, depending on your Operating System the drive may have been partitioned into C and D because it could address a single disk - Quite common on Windows machines I believe.


PS: I would recommend reformatting may be easier to buy a new Hard Disk to add to your PC