Split Drives?

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  1. Jay05

    Jay05 Regular member

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    Okay here's the deal, I have a 40.007GB hard drive on my computer. Last time I did a format it did a 13.5GB on C and the rest on D drive. Today I had to format my computer (Which was stupid...cuz of my external hard drive was also formatted... stupid me...wish I could find a way to get the info back...) but the weird thing was my C drive was set to 15GB and the rest to the D Drive... This is weird... I mean is there a way to set certain amount of space to each drive? or can you make one big drive or multiple drives? Just curious... I mean I do have a 160GB external but when I'm out it might be useful somehow... Anyways thanx :)
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    i'm running a 80gig with 1 partition not 2 like yours
     
  3. Jay05

    Jay05 Regular member

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    Hey how did you do that? use one partition? anyways is there a way to split drives? When I first got my computer it was 2 drives one was empty which was D and my C drive was everything default...
    Is there a way to make one drive or multiple ones?
     
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    Partition Magic works very well for changing partition sizes, adding partitions, etc. It does that, without destroying data on the hard drive.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    you can use fdisk but will lose info whereas pm moves info to drive you want to keep if deleting partition
     
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    yeah, Partition Magic is definately the way to go as far as partitioning. formatting, and changing drive configurations.
     

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