How can i combine my back up disk space to my local C disk to make it bigger?

Question

I do not want to have to pay for anything. Is it possible? A free program download would be nice. Thanks.

Answer 1

i used partition magic.... its the best, from what i have used.

i researched a lot.. could not find much of free ones

search your pc for the file "fdisk". its an inbuilt ms-dos utility for hard disk mgmt.

partition magic is not so risky regarding loss of data. fdisk, am not sure.

anyhow, dont forget to take a backup of all the important info b4 u resize..

Answer 2

I'm assuming that you have 2 physical drives. That means, two physical hard drives in your system. Now, you want to change that to 1 logical drive, with a combination of the 2 capacities. There are two ways to do this. Both involve what is known as RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). First, find out if your motherboard supports RAID by going into BIOS setup (there will usually be something that says "press [something] to enter setup" usually F1, F2, or DEL). If after going through your BIOS there is an option for RAID, enable JBOD (just a bunch of disks). What that does is it takes all your disks and makes them one logical disk to the OS. If there's not that but there is RAID 0 , use that. HOwever, RAID 0 takes your two drives, and puts half of whatever you're saving on the first and half on the second physical drive. So if your hard drive failed you would not recover anything. Make sure you back up well with RAID 0. If there isn't that option, then you'll need to buy a RAID adapter, such as one made by Adaptec.

Answer 3

The above answer is correct. Unless you are an expert, I dont recommend you run out and start repartitioning your hard drive(s). Further, I do not recommend turning a back up into more hard drive space.
However, if you are sure you know what you are doing and wont delete your operating system, there is a free partition program called qparted. It is open source, and comes on the CD for a great free operating system, called Kubuntu Feisty Fawn. You can get both for free at www.kubuntu.org

Answer 4

The purpose of a back up is to save your data in case of hard drive failure. Your C disk is your hard drive. It would not make sense to back up there.
Get a second hard drive, or back up to DVD's. You can also pay for online backup.If the amount of data is small,you can use a gmail account to back up data.