Reformatting drive

willsteele · 08-09-2006, 05:00 PM

I have a laptop given to me by my brother in law. For whatever reason he had two drives. The primary (C) has about 11G with 7 free. The other drive has nothing on it and I would like to reformat it so that the unallocated space (about 17G) can be joined with the primary drive. I've tried what I know to do about reformatting (very little) and am not sure if (or how) to add this unallocated memory to the primary drive. I did try allocating it as a subdirectory in the primary drive but it still remains a drive within the C. Ideally, I would like to improve performance on the PC by increasing the primary drive size but am at a loss for how to get the two partitions to become one.

**The_Other_One** · 08-09-2006, 05:03 PM

We'll say you're installing 2000/XP. During setup, you can choose to format the drive, partition, and what not. Delete any patitions you currently have and then make one big one. Format and load.

codeman0013 · 08-09-2006, 05:51 PM

yea once again the_other_one is right on just partition and go with it it will be one big one when you are done

willsteele · 08-10-2006, 02:49 AM

Okay. I figured it was something straightforward like that, but wanted to be sure before I went and killed my machine. Thanks.

08-09-2006, 05:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
willsteele Bronze Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 31	Reformatting drive I have a laptop given to me by my brother in law. For whatever reason he had two drives. The primary (C) has about 11G with 7 free. The other drive has nothing on it and I would like to reformat it so that the unallocated space (about 17G) can be joined with the primary drive. I've tried what I know to do about reformatting (very little) and am not sure if (or how) to add this unallocated memory to the primary drive. I did try allocating it as a subdirectory in the primary drive but it still remains a drive within the C. Ideally, I would like to improve performance on the PC by increasing the primary drive size but am at a loss for how to get the two partitions to become one.

08-09-2006, 05:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 23 Posts: 12,368	We'll say you're installing 2000/XP. During setup, you can choose to format the drive, partition, and what not. Delete any patitions you currently have and then make one big one. Format and load. __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

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08-09-2006, 05:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
codeman0013 Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Inside my network at work Age: 23 Posts: 1,469	yea once again the_other_one is right on just partition and go with it it will be one big one when you are done

08-10-2006, 02:49 AM	#4 (permalink)
willsteele Bronze Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 31	Okay. I figured it was something straightforward like that, but wanted to be sure before I went and killed my machine. Thanks.