> Well, the truth is that I dont care about my lost data on D Drive.
> I just want to make sure that my hard disk is devided again into
> and I dont know how to do that?
Well, as things now stand you would need a third-party so-called "partition
manager" to repartition your hard drive into two drives.
But do you really need to do this? it seems to me there's really nothing
wrong with living with a single-partitioned 100 GB HDD. You can effectively
organize your HDD by using folders to segregate this or that major program
or division of work. You need not multi-partition your HDD unless you have
some special need for doing so.
The great advantage of having a single partition per physical HDD is its
simplicity. You never encounter the situation where the free space is in the
"wrong" partition nor is there ever a need to adjust partition size.
Many advocates of multi-partitioning schemes invoke the presumed advantage
of separating the operating system from one's programs/data. The presumed
advantage is that by doing so a significant level of security is thereby
introduced in that when the system goes down only the OS need be
(re)installed and all of one's programs & data will be salvaged and brought
back to life. It's an illusion. In "real-life" it never seems to work out
that way. And time & time again we run into that common situation where the
user finds this or that "partition" needs to be expanded, or shrunk, or
merged, but there's no way to accomplish this without third-party tools and
the inherent danger of data loss that can occur through the
partition-manipulation process
By & large, the real answer to securing one's system is creating &
maintaining a comprehensive backup system that the user employs on a routine
& systematic basis. So that when one's day-to-day HDD fails or the system
becomes dysfunctional and unable to boot, one can effectively recover from
that disaster with a minimum of effort. My own preference is to use a disk
imaging program such as Acronis True Image or Symantec's Norton Ghost for
this purpose. But there are other types of backup programs that can meet
one's needs.
You can, of course, organize your HDD any way you want, but you could just
as easily have a single place called a "folder" as have a single place
called a "partition" in which to store your valuable programs & data.
No doubt you will receive advice from others advocating this or that
partitioning scheme. I long ago exhausted my arguments against this frenzy
(I know of no other word!) of what I consider unnecessary
multi-partitioning. So I do not (and will not) participate in any further
discussion on this subject. I fully realize that the "partitioneers" along
with the "defragmenters" have long since won this war.
Anyway, all I ask is that you think hard & reasonably long before doing what
you intend to do. And if you conclude that multi-partitioning your HDD is
the most desirable course of action in your circumstances, then go ahead and
partition away. But even if you do - please embark on a backup system that
you will routinely use. OK?
Anna
90.91 GB FAT 32