Disk Managment/ Partition

[Albionchez]

Hi All,

Hope someone can help me!!

I have a PC that I have just had to format. Before formatting I had 2 separate hard drives of 75 gig each (c&D)

Since formatting though I still have a full size D drive but my C drive, the one that holds windows and all system files is now only showing as 6 gig.

When I go into the disk management tool I can see that the other 69 gig of this drive is listed as "Unallocated". Now I know if I were to right click I could turn that into "free Space" but is there anyway I can attach the 69 gig part to the 6 gig bit to get back to the original 75 gig without formatting again?

Any help is appreciated

[kostyanj]

Only with 3rd party tools like partition magic. But I'm pretty sure that it wont' allow you to modify your C drive like that. Your only option might be to reformat.

[Albionchez]

OK, not good news but thanks anyway.

Do you think only having 6 gig will cause a problem? Are there some installs that HAVE to go on the same drive as windows or can I make it so they all download to the other drive?

[kostyanj]

Actually, 6gig is more than enough. On all of my setups, I purposely limit the amount of space on my windows drive. The reason is that if windows dies and I have to reinstall, I don't lose my data. There are no programs that i've ever come across that NEED to be on the same drive as windows, so don't worry about it.