Hard drive has C and D drive but I only want it to have only C not partitioned. How do I get the whole drive?

Question

My laptop was shipped with a 60 gb hardrive but it had c using 14 gb (system) and D drive 36gb. I only want to have a C drive for the whole 60gb, how do i do this?

Answer 1

It can be done with partitioning software.
This one is freely downloadable:

Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

*** One thing I would like to add ... having a single hard drive partitioned is a good thing. It not only uses space more efficiently AND performs better, but is also a safe way to keep data & personal files on a drive other than the C drive.

If ever your PC becomes infected with a virus (many just infect files on the C drive) or the operating system crashes ... keeping files like music, video, documents, etc ... on the D drive will make formating the C drive & reinstalling Windows all the less painless.

Anyways .... just my opinion. You take it for what you think it's worth.

regards,
Philip T

Answer 2

You can use a disk partition editor like Partition Magic to combine the 2 partitions (there may be open source - free - utilities that do the same thing, I am not aware of one, though), or you can wipe out the hard drive and do a fresh installation of your OS on a single partition on the drive.