Partitioned hard drive

[The Honest Men]

Ok, Hi, I have a 8gb hard drive partitioned into 3 I,J and K cAN ANYONE TELL ME IN OLD MAN EASY TO DO TERMS HOW TO GET THE BLOODY THING BACK TO JUST ONE? rUNNING WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION. mANY THANKS. Edited January 13, 2009 by The Honest Men

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Ok let's see what's going on here.

 

Right click My Computer then click Manage then click Storage and then Disk Management.

 

Hit the PrtScr (Print screen) button and open Paint.

 

Hit Ctrl + V

 

Save the image in a .jpeg file format and post that image back here when replying by using the Manage Attachments option.

[The Honest Men]

Ok, You have lost me there! I opened what you said apart from Paint!!! Where and what is that?

[BeeCeeBee]

You will find "paint" in your program files under accessories.

[DirtyPolo]

Open the start menu by clicking the start button,

 

Go to "All programs", or "Programs", whichever :)

 

Then "Accessories",

 

and there should be a program called "Paint", or "msPaint"

 

This is a simple image editing program built into Windows.

 

Then do as wolfey says.

 

EDIT: Barry beat me to it :(, Damn me and my time wasting BOLDING of key words :P

 

To save the image as a ".jpeg"

 

When you have pasted the image into paint [ctrl + v]

 

Click on "File"

 

Then select "Save As"

 

Under the box where you enter the file name it might say something like "24-bit Bitmap (*.bmp *dip)"

 

Click on the little arrow next to this and select the option of "JPEG (*.JPG *.JPEG *.JPE *.JFIF)"

 

Then come back to the forums, click on "post reply"

 

Then on the new screen, type your reply and to attach the image;

 

scroll down the screen until you see "Attach files"

 

Click on the "Manage Attachments" button

 

this will bring up a new window, click on "choose file"

 

then browse/find the image that you just saved, click "open"

 

Then click on "Upload"

 

then post your reply and the image will be attached for us to look at it :)

Edited January 13, 2009 by DirtyPolo

[The Honest Men]

Hope this helps, I used the system to delete 1 of them but I may have cocked it up!!!!!!!

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Ok Honest what we have here is 2 physical hard drives in your computer.

 

One is 80GB as you mistakenly misinterpreted and the other is some obscure 3GB drive.

 

Windows resides on the I: drive although how it became to be labelled up as that is quite mysterious.

 

You have just over 80% of free space on that drive so there is plenty of room to add files.

 

All partitions on the other drive (Disk 1) can be deleted and you can make a fresh singular partition to utilise all 3GB.

[The Honest Men]

Wolfey,

 

I am PC ****in Illiterate i have not a scooby what you are on about? Maybe I have what should be my Cdrive (80GB)! But when I try to Install Flash player to play movies it tells me i have to free 5ooomb of space to allow this?

 

Now how would i do the 3 GB thing?? You don't live near Pirbright do you ha ha ha!

[The Honest Men]

I know i am a pain, But as you could see on my screen grab thing my letters on screen are really small how do i get them larger??

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Trust me your CDROM drive will not be showing 80GB.

 

It may well be that Flash is trying to install to a non existant C: drive, you need to alter the file path to install to I:\Windows\Program Files.

 

To enlarge the pic click on it 3 times.

 

Right click on the 1004MB unknown partition and click delete partition, do the same with the Drive1VOL00