Hard Disks

[Jomapil]

Hello, everyone.

I would like to know the solution to the following question:

I have two disks:

disk 0 - C: and D: ( 250 GB )
disk 1 - E: F: and G: ( 1 TB )

(Windows XP sp2)

I want to aggregate C: and D: , so disk 0 does'nt have any partition.
But C: has the OS installed.
How can I to do that in the following cases:
a) If it is possible to do the work without to erase XP.
b) If it is not possible what can I do.

Thanks a lot.

Cheers.

[TJohns]

1) grab a copy of GPARTED CD and burn a copy
2) move stuff off D: drive
3) boot CD, reduce D: partition size, expand C: partition size
4) boot Windows
5) move stuff that was on D: to now larger C: drive
6) repeat 2-5 till D: empty
7) boot CD, delete D: partition, expand C: to whole disk

[hech54]

That's why I avoid partitions at all costs...

[Jomapil]

OK, TJohns. It seems a little confusing but understandable. My drive D: is empty. I think, in my case, I must suppress the points 2), 5) and 6). Or also eliminate points 4) and 5) ?

Thank you very much, TJohns.

hech54 - With disks so great, for me is indispensable to divide them in two or three.

Cheers.

[edDV]

If D: is empty, just delete D: and expand the C: partion size to full disk in GParted. Backup any critical data first.

When finished it is a good idea to defrag your C: drive in XP. The files will be scattered.

[Jomapil]

Thanks, edDV.

Completely enlightened.

Cheers.

[Jomapil]

I downloaded GPARTED and burned it in a CD.
The CD has 4 folders and 2 files ( COPYING and Gparted-Live-Version ) no .exe?
How can I execute GPARTED?

[freebird73717]

Gparted is a livecd. Meaning you put the disc in the cdtray and boot your computer to the cd. It will load a live minimal linux operating system. Then you use gparted there.

[hech54]

This is why I avoid partitions at all costs...

[MJA]

This is why I avoid partitions at all costs...

repeating after every 5 posts like a TV commercial

[hech54]

This is why I avoid partitions at all costs...

repeating after every 5 posts like a TV commercial

Ah but I reworded it "a bit" this time...

[edDV]

GParted does what Partition Magic used to do without the constant $upgrades for NTFS and large drives. It is free from a simple Linux boot.

[Nelson37]

Hopefully you will not loose the entire contents of both drives due to partition instability related to GPartEd. Been at least 2 or 3 months since one of those showed up.

You can not fully Avoid partitions, you have to have at least ONE. What you can avoid, and I absolutely recommend, is not to MESS WITH a partition structure in ANY WAY, SHAPE, or FORM. In the future, keep your partition structure as simple as possible.

[Jomapil]

I performed the operations with Gparted and it is everything well done.

Thank you, everybody.

Cheers.