Hard Drive

My wife has a Compaq Lap Top, It has C:/ drive
and D:/ on the hard drive.
I would like to remove the D:/ and make it all
C:/ as their is nothing in the D:/ drive.
I would leave the CD-Rom as E:/Drive.
Any information on this subject?

jr.

 

rawkaw

If you remove the D: drive, then your CD Rom drive would become D:\.

At any rate you would have to fdisk and format the HD (and lose all data) to do away with D:.

I would keep D: and drag all my created data files (My Documents, Pictures, etc.) to the D: drive. That way, if you ever have to format C: and reinstall, you wouldn't lose your data.

 

I think Compaq uses this partition for their 'restore' program. Check and see what files are on the D drive. If you have to do a restore it creates the same partition.

 

My dad's got a Compaq laptop with both C: & D: & D: is used for the factory restore of the original OS. So I wouldn't destroy it, if anything use partition magic to create a X: drive that will be used for storing important data.

My $0.02

Bubba169