How do i put two hardrives into one so i have one that is the C: drive with 107GB and D:drive 37GB how do....?

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How do i put two hardrives into one so i have one that is the C: drive with 107GB and D:drive 37GB how do put the D: Drive into the C: Drive so that i only have one drive??

Answer 1

You can not

Answer 2

Go Control Panel > (Classic Mode) Administrative tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. A table of your drives will appear at the bottom of the screen. If C:\ and D:\ are on the same row, they are partitions on one drive, in which case you have to delete them both and create a new, bigger one, called C:\. I'm assuming Windows is installed on C:\, in which case you have to reinstall Windows, and use the Partition manager on the XP CD.
If the two drives appear on different rows, they are seperate physical drives. The easiest way to join two physical drives is a RAID array (its either RAID 0 or RAID 1 - I can't remember - one joins the drives and the other just makes the same data be stored on both at once which is useless). This again requires a Windows reinstall and a computer geek to help you set up your RAID array.
If you don't want to reinstall Windows, or don't have your Windows CD, then it's really not even worth trying. 107GB is quite big enough.. you could just use the Disk Manager to delete the spare D:\ drive.

Answer 3

AFAIK You can use partition software to join Your two hdd logically. Other solutions are RAID systems and system commands (but i do not use either myself). What You do in detail depends a little on the OS You use.

thx for reading my post

p. s. Great; it sounds like You got rid of Your viruses problem?!

Well - to be honest and not answer this question of You here in any detail. I would not join the two hdd logically or per Raid but set up an emergency and a regular OS on separate partitions or even better HDD. That would make an extra maintenance cd redundant.

I have partitioned HDDs into sections that contain data and are big enough for e.g. a DVD/CD including source to work with and additioanlly I set up one partition with a regular every day OS and one partition with an emergency system on each PC that I own or maintain.

Answer 4

You need to partition your hard drive. There is software online that will allow you to partition with your existing free space. If you want, you can also use a windows set up disk to partition but it will format your hard drive.

Answer 5

if they are 2 physically separate drives, then open the screws and put em together.....i mean, u cant put one in another.

if they are partitions on a single physical drive then u can use a tool like partition magic to make life easy.

Answer 6

If by this u meant tht u want two seperate hard disks on ur comp...then it is posiible....simply use the RAID configuration two connect these two such tht they work as one...by this way u can even increase ur hard disk speed....

usuall for this kinda of stuff use SATA connectivity hardisks

Answer 7

Are you asking how to partition one physical drive or how to add a second hard drive to the system?

Answer 8

It's not easy to be honest.

I mean you could JBOD them (Google it) and that would give you the desired effect.

Not sure if you can do it if they've already got data on though.

Answer 9

do you mean spanning partition/volume across multiple drives, converting to a dynamic disc ?

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Issue-Involved-Converting-Basic-Disks-Dynamic-Disks.html

or copying one drive contents to another drive?
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Answer 10

probably you need to look for some RAID technology......