My WinXP Home laptop has a 40GB hard disk, the C drive is 18GB and the rest is the D drive. D: is empty, how can I add that free space to the C: drive, I don't want an extended partition, I want C: to be the whole disk, but I need to preserve what is currently on C:.
2006-12-04 12:54:06 · 4 answers · asked by Another IT Guy 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Option 1: Change the disk type from basic to dynamic, then extend the C drive.
Option 2: If you still want to use basic, make an image of your C drive to an external USB drive, re-partition the hard drive, and restore the image from the external drive to the hard drive.
The way your question is worded indicate that that you know what your are talking about so I wouldn't insult you by listing the steps one needs to take to accomplish the above.
2006-12-04 13:06:52 · answer #1 · answered by flandargo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can merge your C: and D: partitions in order to set only one primary partition using Disk Director by Acronis. Disk Director is a comprehensive partition manager which can merge, split, move, copy, resize and recover partitions without any data being lost.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
2006-12-04 23:17:43 · answer #2 · answered by S&H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I recommend you for that Acronis Disk Director. It can resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without losing your data. Disk Director is easy in use and handy both for beginners and advanced users. In addition it has many useful features like Disk Editor that will allow you to perform advanced operations on your hard disk drive. Visit Acronis site for more information: http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/
2006-12-06 03:31:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or you can use Partiion Magic to combine both partitions for one big C: drive.
2006-12-04 13:21:36 · answer #4 · answered by Jordan L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋