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partitions and logical drives
05-01-2013 9:37 PM
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I have a bit of a blind spot with this so please be patient. On my hard drive I have a C:\drive of 85GB that when i manage storage shows its formatted as NTFS and is healthy and is described (Boot, Page file, Crash Dump,Primary Partition). I also have a D:\ drive, also NTFS and healthy described as a logical drive.
Widows and progamme files are onthe C:\ and most of my files (mainly music and photos) are on the D drive but ideally i would prefer to have the flexibility of managing this as a single drive so i make maximum use of the size available. The C drive is mostly empty but the D Drive is filling up fast. I tried to reduce the size of the C drive but once done I couldnt make use of the extra head room by extending the D drive.
Is there a simple way of adjusting the size of the Cand D drives please?
Re: partitions and logical drives
05-01-2013 10:13 PM
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06-01-2013 10:55 AM
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Quote but I don't think you can extend the 😧 partition backwards to fill the space generated.
You can do it with gparted by moving the D partition 'left' into the free space, created by reducing the size of the C partition, and then resizing the D partition to take account of the ( now ) free space to the right of it.
Moving a partition takes a LOT of time though if its got any significant amount of data in it and I'd advise taking some form of backup before attempting it, just in case!.
You can download a Live ( bootable ) CD from here http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php
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Re: partitions and logical drives
06-01-2013 12:20 PM
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doing a full back up of 😧
deleting 😧
expanding C:
copying back the data to the newly expanded C
That will still be damaging as I will lose things like my itues play counts etc as the music will all become refenced to a different place.
Re: partitions and logical drives
08-01-2013 9:33 AM
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Forgive the extra comment - but do you really want to merge the drives? I find so many advantages in keeping data and the OS separate - e.g. if the OS gets messed up I can simply restore a recent clone of the C: drive bit-by-bit without touching my data on the 😧 drive.
Perhaps just shrink the C: drive leaving the unallocated space between C: and 😧 and then expand the 😧 drive backwards to use this unallocated space. Acronis will do this in a single multi-step operation.
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08-01-2013 12:11 PM
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08-01-2013 7:50 PM
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Some will say C:/ ... and some will say D:/ ...
So deleting your D:/ drive will cause you grief - unless Acronis does registry updates too.
It was a bad move by Microsoft to have a dump of cryptic references all in one place.
Do you fancy doing a total reinstall of everything?
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08-01-2013 8:06 PM
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Quote from: Razer I can't think why anyone would want to store their personal data on their OS drive.
Agreed, it easier to backup data if it's on a different disk. If backed up onto an external USB the Data is easy to use on another PC in case of system failure.
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