i have a 80 GB hard drive & its divided into 5 partitions ....and 4 of them have 12 % free space.....and they are heavily fragmented
...so what do u recommend doing ???? shall i reduce the number of partitions ???? so that defragging could be more easy ....or what ?!
2007-09-14 02:03:53 · 7 answers · asked by KURTANGLE 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
also i will defrag it using Diskeeper ....
2007-09-14 02:05:18 · update #1
ok....after i remove all the files from only 2 partitions for example....how can i DELETE thos partitions ?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-09-14 04:02:30 · update #2
Why on EARTH would you partition an 80 Gig HDD into FIVE partitions ?? That's the weirdest idea I have ever heard (apart from naming your child Moon Unit of course).
Unless you have the right software, you will not be able to modify your partition layouts without losing the data on the drive anyway, so it may be a better idea to go out and get a larger drive, copy all your data across onto that, and then reformat your 80 gig and use it as a single partition drive for keeping your mp3 files on, or also buy a cheap caddy for it and use it as a portable drive you can take with you to your friends house to share files.....
Just be careful, or you could lose all your files.
Good luck !!
2007-09-14 02:09:44 · answer #1 · answered by martinowens5173 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I recommend getting a new hard drive. There is no reason that you should be dealing with an 80 gig hard drive with cost of hard drives where it is today. Go buy you self at least a 160, and then just copy the entire drive over and you won't have to worry about storage space.
Why do you need 5 partitions anyway? Do you have 4 seperate systems installed?
2007-09-14 02:08:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try only two partition, one for OS and the other for back-up, to many partition is confusing to your computer to locate file in five partition and make your computer to work slow to open a particular file. Just think its hard to find an object in five different room than looking only for two room.
I hope it helps!
2007-09-14 02:13:37 · answer #3 · answered by Rhonnie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To work with partitions use "Partition Magic" by Acronis. With this you can remove partitions and resize partitions and copy partitions. Five does seem excessive, and two is prob'ly better, but it depends what you want to do.
2007-09-19 00:03:29 · answer #4 · answered by Keith B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not shure how to delete partitions but disksweeper is the best disk defragmentor out there. And the less partitions you have, the better
2007-09-21 18:50:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you have 5 partitions? Ntfs or fat is the norm...do you have more then one operating system on it? If not, you do not need the additional partitions.
2007-09-14 02:12:38 · answer #6 · answered by julie46616 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-13 08:54:09 · answer #7 · answered by bartelt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋