Guest al.b Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 had my computer updated to xp pro i now seem to have two local drives my main one has a small memory left but the other is not useing any or very little of what it can if i delete the second local drive will all the memery go back to my main drive . if so how do i do this please be gental as im no proffesor in computing> thanks
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 Re: local disc drives On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:50:01 -0700, al.b <alb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > had my computer updated to xp pro i now seem to have two local drives You have two *partitions*, I assume. Each is a part of your single physical drive, but appears to Windows as separate drives. > my main > one has a small memory No, disk space, not "memory." Do not confuse "memory" with disk space. they are two very different things. > left but the other is not useing any or very little of > what it can if i delete the second local drive will all the memery go back to > my main drive . No. The result will be that you will have no way of accessing that portion of the drive. > if so how do i do this please be gental as im no proffesor in > computing> thanks Unfortunately, no version of Windows before Vista has ever had the ability to change the partition structure of a drive without losing all the data on it. To do so requires the use of a third-party program. Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but there are shareware/freeware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such program), but it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here. However if you use such a program, be sure you have a good backup of anything you can't afford to lose. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go wrong. Since you are apparently a beginner, I should caution you against trying to do this yourself. You should either have a more a more knowledgeable friend work with you to do it, or pay a competent professional to do it for you. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest al.b Posted September 6, 2007 Posted September 6, 2007 Re: local disc drives thanks ken will look into what you said about a professional doing it for me. "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:50:01 -0700, al.b > <alb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > had my computer updated to xp pro i now seem to have two local drives > > > You have two *partitions*, I assume. Each is a part of your single > physical drive, but appears to Windows as separate drives. > > > > my main > > one has a small memory > > > No, disk space, not "memory." Do not confuse "memory" with disk space. > they are two very different things. > > > > left but the other is not useing any or very little of > > what it can if i delete the second local drive will all the memery go back to > > my main drive . > > > No. The result will be that you will have no way of accessing that > portion of the drive. > > > > if so how do i do this please be gental as im no proffesor in > > computing> thanks > > > Unfortunately, no version of Windows before Vista has ever had the > ability to change the partition structure of a drive without losing > all the data on it. To do so requires the use of a third-party > program. Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but there are > shareware/freeware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next > Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you > should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used > it myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such program), but > it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here. > > However if you use such a program, be sure you have a good backup of > anything you can't afford to lose. Although there's no reason to > expect a problem, things *can* go wrong. > > Since you are apparently a beginner, I should caution you against > trying to do this yourself. You should either have a more a more > knowledgeable friend work with you to do it, or pay a competent > professional to do it for you. > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User > Please Reply to the Newsgroup >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 7, 2007 Posted September 7, 2007 Re: local disc drives On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:38:03 -0700, al.b <alb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > thanks ken will look into what you said about a professional doing it for me. You're welcome. Glad to help. By the way, when I say a professional, I do *not* mean someone from one of the big box stores like CompUSA or Best Buy. I would look for a small local person, one recommended by others in your area. If you have a local PC users group, that can be a good place to get a recommendation. > "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:50:01 -0700, al.b > > <alb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > > > had my computer updated to xp pro i now seem to have two local drives > > > > > > You have two *partitions*, I assume. Each is a part of your single > > physical drive, but appears to Windows as separate drives. > > > > > > > my main > > > one has a small memory > > > > > > No, disk space, not "memory." Do not confuse "memory" with disk space. > > they are two very different things. > > > > > > > left but the other is not useing any or very little of > > > what it can if i delete the second local drive will all the memery go back to > > > my main drive . > > > > > > No. The result will be that you will have no way of accessing that > > portion of the drive. > > > > > > > if so how do i do this please be gental as im no proffesor in > > > computing> thanks > > > > > > Unfortunately, no version of Windows before Vista has ever had the > > ability to change the partition structure of a drive without losing > > all the data on it. To do so requires the use of a third-party > > program. Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but there are > > shareware/freeware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next > > Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you > > should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used > > it myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such program), but > > it comes highly recommended by several other MVPs here. > > > > However if you use such a program, be sure you have a good backup of > > anything you can't afford to lose. Although there's no reason to > > expect a problem, things *can* go wrong. > > > > Since you are apparently a beginner, I should caution you against > > trying to do this yourself. You should either have a more a more > > knowledgeable friend work with you to do it, or pay a competent > > professional to do it for you. > > > > -- > > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User > > Please Reply to the Newsgroup > > -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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