One more Q: New (old) harddrive split in two - how do I combine on new PC?

Hello,

Another question regarding my new PC...

I just installed a 120 GB hard drive from another old machine I have around my house into my new PC. The old PC had the 120 GB hard drive split into two separate drives (20 GB and 100 GB).

On my new PC I currently have a C drive (came with the PC when I purchased it) and a D and E drive from the 120 GB drive I just installed.

How can I combine these two drives so it will just appear that I have my original C drive and then this additional D drive, combining the current D and E drives?

Thanks again,
Taylor

 

Anything I could suggest will lose all the data on what is now Drive E. With third-party tools I can at least save the data on Drive D. Is that acceptable to you?

If it is, start by moving the Data you would like to save from Drive E to Drive D.

Let me know your decision.

 

Hey Bill,

Thanks for your quick response. As far as the data on the hard drive (both D and E), I don't care about any of it. I've just formatted both of them, so I'm looking at my current C drive with everything I need, and two blank canvases in D and E.

I'm basically trying to combine the D and E so I can use the D drive strictly as a backup drive, so whenever I finish an industrial design project from my C, I'll just make a copy of the files.

Thank you again,
Taylor

 

To delete a partition or logical drive

Using the Windows interface

1. Open Computer Management (Local)
(Right click My Computer, Manage, Disk Mangement)

2. Right-click the partition, logical drive, or volume you want to delete, and then click Delete Partition.
Do E first, then D.

Important and for you unlikely necessary notes:

• When you delete a partition, all data on that deleted partition or logical drive is lost.
• You cannot recover deleted partitions or logical drives.
• You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.
• You cannot delete the system volume, boot volume, or any volume that contains the active paging file or crash dump (memory dump).
• You cannot delete an extended partition unless the extended partition is empty.

All the logical drives in an extended partition must be deleted before you can delete the extended partition.

Now go back into Disk Management and create a new partition using all the available space. (Scroll down, the free space on the drive is sometimes hidden below the monitor bottom).

Right click and partition the space. And right click and format it.

Best regards.
And Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

Bill

 

Perfect. Much appreciation and gratitude. Thank you for your time.

Take care,
Taylor

 

You are very welcome.

And a belated Welcome to WindowsBBS.

Regards,
Bill Castner