I need more hard disk space but I do have some in a drive that is covered by a CD and I have a pentium 2?

Question

I have a hard dirve that is devided into 2, C and D but my CD device was installed into my D drive. Concidering that I have a pentium 2 would it be easier to try to get that space back or buy a new hard drive.

Answer 1

Your question doesn't make a whole lot of sense. You need more hard drive space but your CD-ROM was installed into your D: drive??? I'm sure you're just wording it wrong but that is impossible. Your CD-ROM can not be installed into your "D drive". Letters like A, C, D, etc are just logical labels for drives. A hard drive can be sliced up into multiple partitions and those partitions can be labeled with any available drive letter that is not already used. So if you have a hard drive that is partitoned into two drives (C:, and D: for example) there is no way to install your CD-ROM into your D drive. Your CD-ROM would just have a different letter like E: or even Z: if you wanted.

Or are you talking about space in your case (tower) to install another drive? If you don't have more space to install an additional drive then you'll have to replace the one you have with a larger one. But if you have a PII then there will most likely be a limit to how big of a drive the motherboard will recognize (possibly no more than 20 or 40G.

Or maybe you would like to get rid of the two partitions and make them into one? This can be done with Symantec Ghost. The easiest way is get rid of everything you want to keep that's on the D: drive by moving it to C: or burning it to CD or copying it to a USB drive, whatever works for you. Then take another hard drive and connect it to your PC (you'd have to buy a new one that your motherboard can recognize) and use Symantec Ghost to Ghost the C: partition to the new drive. When you do that you can tell it to resize C: to take up the entire other drive. This way you don't lose anything and you gain the full space of the drive and eliminate the D: partition. Now you just replace your old hard drive with the new one and it should boot up like usual with all your stuff but with one larger drive. You could also do this with a older drive you don't want to use as long as it's large enough to take all the data on your C: partition. In that case you'd Ghost to the scratch drive to make it into on partiton and then ghost back to your old drive so now your original drive will have just one partition.

I don't know if any of this helps since I'm not even sure what you're asking. My advice - If you have a PII then it's seriously time to get yourself a whole new PC. Any money you spend on this computer will be more than what it's worth.

Answer 2

Are BOTH your partitions full? You cannot 'get the space back' because you didn't create any more 'space' to begin with. Your D partition , and your C partition are part of the same drive. If you delete all the programs you don't use/need from the control panel add/remove program list, and you still need more space, then installing another drive will be required. Be sure to set the jumpers on the new drive to 'slave'.

Answer 3

i agree with dirtyd....

remember if you are running xp you can use the disk manager to check exactly how your disks are configured.. perhaps you may mean that your only drive which has a logical name C: is only half formatted... if it has more than one logical drive on one physical drive then you will have three drive letters showing in My computer..C,D and E for cdrom.

when you use a drive you do not have to fill it all with C: and the disk management will show you unformatted space.

and obviously the cdrom will automatically install as D:

if the problem is that you have unsued space on your hard drive then depending on how it is formatted you can extend drive c or use a third party software to extend C.

you can use diskmanager to add a logical drive or extend the one on there depending on how it is formatted and wheather its basic or dynamic..... but remember if you delelte an extended chunk of a partition then you delete the whole thing not just the bit you add.

Answer 4

It doesnt matter the speed of your computer. I doesnt make any difference at all. If you still want to make one big drive, you can save your files and fdisk your hard drive to one partition.
If you have a very large hard drive, you may need to use the software that came with it (such as Maxtors big drive enabler) to use it as one big disc.

Answer 5

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