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Hard disk partition problem


Q. My hard drive was set up with two partitions. The C drive, which is 14 gigs, and a secondary D drive, which is 99 gigs. The problem is that I have a program that will not allow me to install to the D drive and the C drive is nearly full. Is there a way to increase the C drive without wiping everything and starting over?

A. If it were not such a huge hassle I would suggest that you simply use the native Windows partitioning tool FDISK and remove all partitions and set the drive up with one single partition and be done with it.

I understand that this does take time and would require you to have your data backed up for an easy restore and, if you are like most computer users, that’s probably not the case.

These days there is little reason to have a drive broken up into multiple partitions. I know some would argue the point and I do realize there are some exceptions. Even so, I would rather have two physical disks rather than one if I wanted multiple drives.

For your situation I would suggest looking at a program called Partition Magic.

Partition Magic is a program you can install on your PC and will let you resize your disk partitions. Basically you would shrink your D drive to add space to your C drive. The program works very well and it is pretty easy to use.

Keep in mind that any time you affect this type of change to your hard drive you are running the risk of data loss. You should back up your system before attempting this.

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One Response

  1. Ching Wei says:

    Very nice informtaion, thank you for it.