Is there software or is there a way to do this without purchasing anything? Right now, on my current Dell laptop, I have a C: (Local Drive) and a D: (Back-up). I want them to be all one drive, and I want to do this with my new laptop as well.
2007-02-01 00:24:10 · 6 answers · asked by barbevans04 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
I am buying a Dell. I get a student discount. And I re-read my question and it sounds like I'm not willing to buy the software. I meant is there either software I can buy or a way to do it without purchasing anything. Sorry.
2007-02-01 00:34:33 · update #1
Usually the Dell computers will arrive with two partitions on the hard drive. You can combine them into one partition using software such as Partition Magic. Or you can do it by reinstalling Windows (hopefully you spend the extra $10 to get the Windows CD with the machine). During the install process, it ask you if you want to partition and format the drive. You would tell it to create only one partition and then install Windows onto that partition.
However, you may want to think about whether you really want to do that. It is usually recommended that you keep the two partitions on your PC. Use the C drive for installing programs and the second (D drive) partition for storing data. By separating the two, the computer will run faster and experience fewer issues with file fragmentation, etc. It is better to have the two partitions - then is what they do it that way. You just need to learn to use C for programs and D for data.
2007-02-01 00:54:51 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dell's suck.
You should go with a acer, asus, toshoba, or abs. They are all much better quality than dell.
I have an acer 5670wlmi, which is supposed to be a value computer. My roommate has a dell 15 series, which has the same cpu and graphics card. It also has the same exact hard drive capacity and RAM capacity, yet is runs quite a bit slower, and is almost 50% thicker and made of much lower quality material.
2007-02-01 00:27:47 · answer #2 · answered by Doggzilla 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 19:55:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can do it by two ways hardware or software. Hardware: if your Hard drives are sata drives and your controller has built in raid then you can set a raid 0 array, which will make both hard drives look like one and data will get written to both, speeding up performance but could hurt due to redundancy. Other is in Windows XP PRO, maybe in media center too, you can convert your hard drives to dynamic volumes (in disk management snap in). Doing this will allow you to create a striped volume with the two drives which will do the same thing as raid 0, but is controlled by software..
2007-02-01 00:29:04 · answer #4 · answered by keith s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this is a laptop we're talking about then you'll only have one physical hard drive partitioned into two parts, which means you can indeed do this. PartitionMagic is the industry standard tool for creating/deleting/resizing disk partitions, although it's not free sadly:
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=sp&pvid=pm80
There's also a free tool here that's worth trying before shelling out money:
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/
2007-02-01 00:43:17 · answer #5 · answered by Bamba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't go with opinions on what you want to buy because it sucks or whatever. in any case u hv a dell so if u plan to buy a 2nd one i suppose the merit of your decision is experince based rather than an opinion-they are like arm pits everybody has them ... and some stink!
anyway about your question partitionlogic is freeware that can recombine split HDD. partitionmagic is another but it costs $.
2007-02-01 00:35:18 · answer #6 · answered by hnm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋