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[cnkengr]

My laptop shows I have two harddrives. A "C" drive with 13.9 GB and a "D" drive with 36.9 GB. Can someone tell me how to make this one drive ?? I am running Windows XP home and my laptop is a FRV37 SONY VAIO

[VHG]

You only have one drive, it is divided into two PARTITIONS.

While there is software that can merge partitions there is a danger it can corrupt your drive and you will lose everything.

You can use a D drive just as easily as a C drive.

Digital pictures, mp3 files, videos etc can all be stored on a D drive, you just need to specify D when saving the file.

In fact it is probably better to keep Windows and programs on C and personal files on D. That way if Windows crashes and you need to reinstal Windows your D drive with all your personal files will not be lost.

[VHG]

Also if you have things already on your C drive (like digital pictures, mp3 files etc) they can easily me moved to the D drive to free up space on C.

[ACtheTROLL]

I'm sort of with VHG on this ... I routinely create 2 partitions
c:\ is the operating system
d:\ is data, games, photos .... anything that's not my base system

and the my documents | Properties lets you shift the folder to d:\my documents
so to backup all your data .... just copy a single folder ... and you have everything

also .... disaster strikes ... and you need to reinstall windows .... just work in c:\ ..... all your pikkies, mp3s, letters and spreadsheets are safe on d:\

it won't help if the HDD packs up ... but it makes life easier

however
if you can't live with it like that ....
nip to tesco - check out the PC mags - buy the one with the free partition manager

[johnpol78]

the total size of your hard disk is 51 GB. when you installed the windows xp in the laptop . you created two partitions.
these are not two hard drives .
these are the partitions of the hard rive which are creates at the time of the installation the windows to save the data and the windows.
normally we installed the windows in the c drive and the data in the others drive so that the windows files be will corrupt . we recover the windows files and the rest of the data will be safe.

you can create many partitions in the laptop while installing the windows.
these partition can be deleted and re created from the disk management. but the data will be lost.