How to undo the partition of a HD

Carakeel | 11:13 Sun 17th Oct 2010 | Computers

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Hi everyone! I have a laptop on which the DH has been partiioned into C: and D:. C: has ll the programmes and files on it while D: has nothing. I want do undo the partitioning. Can someone please advise me how I can do this safely? Many thanks!

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RATTER15

DH! confused dear? lol

I think she means her Hard drive.

Bless her :-)

ummmm

Your DH must be an idiot :-) xx

Carakeel

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Sorry, should have check my spelling first, of course I meant HD as in hard drive, lol!!

VHG

If you remove D it wont make C any bigger and where D currently is will be wasted space. On some versions of Windows you can expand the size of C to make it fill up the space where D was, but if this goes wrong you could lose everything, including what is already on C.

Why not leave C and D as they are.

It is a good idea to start storing your personal files on D instead of C.

When you create a document put it on D. If you download some pictures put them on D.

Gradually more and more of you personal files wil be on D and you will get used to using it.

Carakeel

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Thanks VHD, I think you are probably right. I have never had a partitioned drive before, even though I am fairly good on computers. So, am lost with this one. It won't let me put anything on it, which is very annoying, as I wanted to load World of Warcraft on it, seeing as my other drive can't take the full download incl updates.

Nibble

You might try to create mount point on your D: drive, but use this for World of Warcraft ( as a file/folder), which will only have the link on your C: drive, but the actual application & will reside on your D: drive.. Then create further mount points, to move large applications/file to your D: drive to lower your usage of the C: drive. This also means that only your system files will be on you C: partition.

Nibble

This link applies to your problem, please read very carefully:

Assign a mount point folder path to a driveApplies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753321.
aspx

If you create an empty folder on your D; parttition, then create the mount point on that folder, you will be able to then store all your user data on the D: partition. But using the mount point means you won't use a drive letter only a "redirection" from the C: drive. Hope this helps!

Carakeel

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Many thanks Nibble! I didn't realise one could do that. I'll give it a try I think. x

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