Deleting drive

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I uninstalled Ghost that had come with the computer and had expired. Now
I want to delete the D: drive that it had created. How do I do this?
 
Eustace said:
I uninstalled Ghost that had come with the computer and had expired. Now
I want to delete the D: drive that it had created. How do I do this?
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- Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc {OK}
- Right-click the partition under consideration
- Do whatever you wish to do with it.
 
Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management, open Disk
Management.
Right click on Drive D, and click on Delete Partition
 
NewScience said:
Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management, open Disk
Management.
Right click on Drive D, and click on Delete Partition
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And which partition will get bigger on say a hard drive with three
partitions?

Alias
 
--Alias-- said:
And which partition will get bigger on say a hard drive with three
partitions?

Alias
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No partition will "get bigger". You have simply deleted one partition.
Windows does not support dynamic resizing of existing partitions. If you
want to reallocate the blank space to existing partitions, you have to use a
3rd party utility.
Steve
 
None ... since they are deleting the partition, the space will become
unallocated free space.
 
NewScience said:
None ... since they are deleting the partition, the space will become
unallocated free space.
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Oh well. Glad I didn't just go and try it to see what happens :-)

Alias
 
No partition will "get bigger". You have simply deleted one partition.
Windows does not support dynamic resizing of existing partitions. If you
want to reallocate the blank space to existing partitions, you have to use a
3rd party utility.
Steve
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Since D: is allocated 1/4 of my hard drive (10G), I certainly would like
not to lose all this space... What kind of 3rd party utility do I need?
 
Eustace said:
Since D: is allocated 1/4 of my hard drive (10G), I certainly would like
not to lose all this space... What kind of 3rd party utility do I need?
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Partition Magic, not free.

Alias
 
Partition Magic, not free.

Alias
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An open source solution that is free.

http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

Comeon Alias, I thought you were moving in this direction.

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Eustace said:
This seems OK, except: does it work with Windows? Since your reply was
in a Windows newsgroup, it seems that it should be, but I'd like to make
sure.
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It's not for Windows. Read the FAQs.

Alias
 
This seems OK, except: does it work with Windows? Since your reply was
in a Windows newsgroup, it seems that it should be, but I'd like to make
sure.
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It works with hard drives. The operating system on the hard drive has
nothing to do with it. It works outside of the operating system. It comes
on a self-booting Linux CD that you'd boot your computer with and then work
on the partitions on your hard drive(s).

--
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This seems OK, except: does it work with Windows? Since your reply was
in a Windows newsgroup, it seems that it should be, but I'd like to make
sure.
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**** CORRECTION ****

Sorry, but I sent you the wrong link. The link you want is this one:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

This will get you a LiveCD that you can use to boot your computer and work
on your partitions. You'll download the gparted-livecd ISO file and then
burn that image to a CDR using something like Nero.

Sorry for the confusion!

--
A Windows user finally clues in and sets up a dual boot system and loves
it!:

http://www.winxperts.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1377

The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613

The New and Improved Ballmer:


Is this a modern day equivalent of a Nazi youth rally?:

http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg

A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...


View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
http://shots.osdir.com/
 
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