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hard drive is split into four seperate hard drives

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by LazyBOy, 2004/08/23.

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  1. 2004/08/23
    LazyBOy

    LazyBOy Inactive Thread Starter

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    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?
     
  2. 2004/08/23
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    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.
     

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    BillyBob Lifetime Subscription

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    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
     
  5. 2004/08/25
    LazyBOy

    LazyBOy Inactive Thread Starter

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

    BillyBob
     
  7. 2004/08/25
    broni

    broni Moderator Malware Analyst

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