Reformatting drive

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willsteele

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