Please help with disk management..

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kenny1999

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hi I've got three physical HDDs please look at the following screen capture.

1. My operating system (windows 7) is installed on Disk 1 C: (32GB), but 32GB is not enough for me so I want to expand the size of this partition.

2. The 100MB space reserved for the system is allocated on Disk 0. I think it is so wired to have the system space reserved on a drive different from the system. I want to make them to be in one drive. Should I?

3. While files on Disk 1 are backup to Disk 0 and Disk 2. Disk 1 can be formatted at anytime, but the files on Disk 0 and Disk 2 should be safe.

Please help with the above request. I don't know how to start with. Thanks

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1. My operating system (windows 7) is installed on Disk 1 C: (32GB), but 32GB is not enough for me so I want to expand the size of this partition.
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This should be doable, as the C and D drive are both disk 1 and they are simply two separate partitions of a 1TB drive.

2. The 100MB space reserved for the system is allocated on Disk 0. I think it is so wired to have the system space reserved on a drive different from the system. I want to make them to be in one drive. Should I?
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That is odd, mine is on the same drive. I wouldn't mess with it though, it's only 100MB. If it works, don't fix it.

3. While files on Disk 1 are backup to Disk 0 and Disk 2. Disk 1 can be formatted at anytime, but the files on Disk 0 and Disk 2 should be safe.
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Disk 1 is your operating system drive, so no it can not be formatted at anytime.
 
Geoff said:
This should be doable, as the C and D drive are both disk 1 and they are simply two separate partitions of a 1TB drive.


That is odd, mine is on the same drive. I wouldn't mess with it though, it's only 100MB. If it works, don't fix it.


Disk 1 is your operating system drive, so no it can not be formatted at anytime.
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I am going to clean re-install of windows 7 because the whole system is now in mess with a lot of system errors and lag, 32GB is indeed not enough for me. I meant files on disk 1 were already backup so it can be formatted at anytime.
 
Go into disk management and right click on C drive and click on extend volume. Choose to take space away from Drive D. Make drive C about 125 gb or so or whatever you feel is enough space.
 
johnb35 said:
Go into disk management and right click on C drive and click on extend volume. Choose to take space away from Drive D. Make drive C about 125 gb or so or whatever you feel is enough space.
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how much space is recommended for c: (system drive?) in order for the system not to be lag

I am feeling lag sometimes.

my system config: intel i5 2400 3.1, 4gbx2 RAM, basic MOBO. 400W PSU running on windows 7 64 bit

I don't play any games. I guess the lag is due to insufficient space on system drive , isn't it?
 
It looks to me like there used to be a RAID between disk 0 and disk 2. The 100MB on disk 0 is the RAID information.
 
Geoff said:
If you do this, any large programs or games will need to be installed to a different drive.
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He originally had a 32GB partition for it. 80GB is fine for the OS and small stuff. Large programs and games don't need to be installed on the OS partition.

Okedokey said:
It looks to me like there used to be a RAID between disk 0 and disk 2. The 100MB on disk 0 is the RAID information.
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Not necessarily. Remember that little partition Windows creates called "System Reserved"?
 
voyagerfan99 said:
He originally had a 32GB partition for it. 80GB is fine for the OS and small stuff. Large programs and games don't need to be installed on the OS partition.
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Which is what I said :)

"If you do this, any large programs or games will need to be installed to a different drive."
 
voyagerfan99 said:
He originally had a 32GB partition for it. 80GB is fine for the OS and small stuff. Large programs and games don't need to be installed on the OS partition.



Not necessarily. Remember that little partition Windows creates called "System Reserved"?
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Yeah but usually thats on the OS drive.
 
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