hard drive is split into four seperate hard drives

LazyBOy · 23rd August 2004

I have a hard drive that seems to be read as four different drives whenever I look into the My Computer, how can I get it to where it doesnt do that?

**Steve R Jones** · 23rd August 2004

Does it show up as C, D, E & F drive (or some combination)?

If so, you'd have to purchase a program like Partition Magic OR start over with a blank empty drive after to Fdisk to remove the partitions.

BillyBob · 23rd August 2004

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hard drive is split into four seperate hard drives

How about one hard drive divided into 4 partitions ?

Is this a drive that you have been using, or one that you got from somewhere else.

How large is the HD. 20gig ? 40gig ?

I 20 then I sugggest 2 partitions, If 40 then I suggest 3 or 4 partitions.

The method behind this maddness to to keep just the OS on the C: drive and everything else on other partitions. Various program backups which should not be stored on the C: drive for one thing.

That way if the C:/OS should go bad everything is not lost.

Bottom line--Over a period of time it pays to keep things separated.

BillyBob

LazyBOy · 25th August 2004

well thanks I'll probably keep things seperate after thinking about it. although do you know how I can change the capacity each partition can have?

BillyBob · 25th August 2004

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you'd have to purchase a program like Partition Magic

You would need the above to resize the pratitions without losing the data on them.

BillyBob

**broni** · 26th August 2004

You may try free Partition Manager