can D: drive become my System drive??

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Jeppegb

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Iformation about my drivers:
I have 5 hard drives and 4 of them is local disk.
System (C:) max 19.5gb. Left 384mb.:mad:
Local Disk (D:) max 931gb. left 862gb.:eek:
Local Disk (E:) max 931gb. left 925gb.:eek:
Local Disk (F:) max 931gb. left 931gb.:eek:
Local Disk (G:) max 931gb. left 911gb.:eek:
As you see i dont need free space. but i realy want my Local Disk (F:) to be my System. What can i do. please dont say reinstall C Drive. just tell me if im about to reboot the computer or replace the Disk.
Computer: HP xw4600 Workstation.:good:
 
The easiest thing to do would be to clone C to F as F is an empty drive right now and then F will become C which would be your boot drive. You could also repartition the F drive into 2. Make the first partition like 80 gb and then leave the balance for personal data. Then you could clone your smaller c drive into the new 80 gb drive and use that to boot to. I just gave you an example for 80 gb, you can make it whatever size you need. Then remove the old c drive from the system.
 
Have i understand it right

johnb35 said:
The easiest thing to do would be to clone C to F as F is an empty drive right now and then F will become C which would be your boot drive. You could also repartition the F drive into 2. Make the first partition like 80 gb and then leave the balance for personal data. Then you could clone your smaller c drive into the new 80 gb drive and use that to boot to. I just gave you an example for 80 gb, you can make it whatever size you need. Then remove the old c drive from the system.
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So i need to go into Shrink volume and set F to 80gb or 200gb? then i cut/copy And paste in the F drive?? or use a program FX. Norten Ghost to clone the hard drive exactly how it looks and placem it into the F:? after the clone is done, the hard drive will be F so i now have 2 system drives.then i shut down the computer and take C: drive out(In Real Life) And replace it with F: Drive, and the result will be new System Drive?? is that correct
 
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No, you just can't copy and paste data from C to F, it won't be bootable. After you create whatever size partitions you want from the F drive, you have to use cloning software that will actually clone the c drive to the first partition on the F drive. Usually you can download the software to do that from the hard drive maker, western digital, seagate, etc..
 
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