Ron6519

I'm having an issue with a hard drive that I had installed and I'm not sure how to proceed. When the new drive was put in, it was partitioned. C drive @18 GB and D drive @ 56 GB. How do I get the computer to recognize the D drive? When I went to defrag, it says there's only 9% of free space(in C drive) and it needs 15% to work properly. That's the short term issue but I would like to get the computer to recognize D in general.
In the "Windows XP professional" book it mentions deleting the partition and renaming the drive. I'm not fascile enough to know if this is what I need to do.
Drive listing:
WDC WD800J3-OOJJAO Disk Drive
Canon MP500 Storage USB Device Disk Drive
Floppy Disc Drive Floppy Drive
DVDRW IDE1004 DVD/CD-R
Under the Disc Management section I found:
The D drive color is blue and is listed as the, "Logical Drive." .
The C drive is listed as the "primary position"
I can store files into the D drive, but I can't load any programs
Both the drives were formatted in the NTFS catagory.
Appreciate any guidance.
Ron

arisejesus

can u post a screen shot here
if ur D drive do not have any data, try formatting it using gparted or any other partition editor.

Ron6519

I have no idea what a screen shot is. The D drive is formatted. I can post files, but the computer doesn't seem to see it to use as a buffer(space to put things) during defragging the C drive.
Ron

arisejesus

hmmm...screen shot means u print ur screen.
if u r using windows, tab the "print screen" button on ur keyboard then go to ms word and click the paste button. then save as picture, post the picture here.

ceewi1

It can't and won't. There are a few ways around it:

• Copy the data from C to D while defragmenting
• Use a third party partitioning tool (most don't require the 15% free drive space that the Windows tool does)
• Use a partition editor to resize the partitions

If you can store and access data on the D: drive, then the computer can access it as it's intended to.

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Ron6519

ceewi1 said:
"Use a partition editor to resize the partitions"

Is this something that I can find in Windows or is it software I need to purchase?
What is the reason to partition drives?
Ron

arisejesus

well, u have a choice
the first is to empty up some data in ur drive so that there will be more freespace to allow windows to defrag the drive.
the second method is to use a partition editor and enlarge the drive's partition so that windows will have space to defrag the drive.
Gparted is a very good open source partition editor, and good news is it's FREE.
download the .iso image, burn it into a disc and then boot into the disc.
use the editor to expand ur partition that ur need to defrag

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

diroga

throught windows XP you can manage partions: start>run>"compmgmt.msc">storage>disk management

its not that good when compared to gparted but you can do it from windows w/o burrning a CD. give that a try before using gparted.

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Ron6519

I appreciate the help. Thanks.
Ron