Eliminate Partition new HDD

[Jim Fell]

Recently I purchased a new Seagate 200GB HDD for my circa Sep 2002 Dell
Dimension 8200. Installed the new drive and tried to partition it. I did
not get it done as I had intended.

Disk management shows this new Seagate drive as Disk 1 Basic 186.31 GB
online. New volume (D 102 MB NTFS healthy. New volume (I NTFS 186.21 GB
healthy.

What I would like to do is set up this new physical Seagate drive so all of
it shows up as drive D. I want to get rid of the I drive. But not certain
on how to do it. The reason I want to set up this new drive this way is
because I want to clone my existing C: drive (Western Digital) to the new
Seagate as I believe my C: Western digital drive is failing. I hear strange
sounds upon boot up which then go away about half way through XP's loading
yet it passes Western Digital's diagnostics just fine. By the way thought
the unusual sounds may have been failing power supply fan (bad berings) so I
installed a new power supply -- no help. Then I changed the CPU fan -- also
no help so it must be the C: drive thats making funny noises upon boot up.

Long story short can anyone tell me how to repartition the Seagate physical
drive so that all available space on it shows up as drive "D" and the "I"
drive goes away? After the clone of the C: drive then I will have a drive
that I can use to replace my failed C: drive if it goes south on me.

Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Jim

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi Jim,

Without using any third-party utilities to combine or merge both drives, you
would have to delete both partitions on that drive, then create a new
partition in the resulting unallocated/unpartitioned space. You should be
able to perform the deletion and creation of the partitions via Disk
Management........in the lower pane on the right-hand side, right-click on
each of the partitions, one at a time, and then select Delete Logical Drive.
Once both drives have been deleted, and the disk is left with
Unallocated/Unpartitioned space, right-click in the
Unallocated/Unpartitioned space and then select Create New Partition.



Regards,

 

[Rick & Deb]

With that big of hard drive I would partition a least 3 drives. If your c
drive now is 40 geg and you want more space make it 80 geg and then
partition the rest into drives equally are how ever you want. It makes
access fast with smaller drives.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Recently I purchased a new Seagate 200GB HDD for my circa Sep 2002 Dell
Dimension 8200. Installed the new drive and tried to partition it. I did
not get it done as I had intended.

Disk management shows this new Seagate drive as Disk 1 Basic 186.31 GB
online. New volume (D 102 MB NTFS healthy. New volume (I NTFS 186.21 GB
healthy.

What I would like to do is set up this new physical Seagate drive so all of
it shows up as drive D.

You will have to delete both in disk management and then r-click in
unallocated space and create partition. Or just delete the one that is
not OK and make a new one

 

[Jim Fell]

All,
Thanks for the advise. Now have it set up as I intended in the first place.

This newsgroup is geat.

 

[Patti MacLeod]

You're welcome



Regards,

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Under NTFS a single large partition makes sense if the planned usage for the
drive suggests that. Under FAT32 there were reasons for limiting partitions
to 32GB. It does not sound like the OP has that kind of need.

 

[LMO]

What is Disk Management? I do not see it in my System Tools.
Thanks!

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi LMO,

Go to Start>Run and key in diskmgmt.msc then click on OK or hit ENTER.



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

What is Disk Management? I do not see it in my System Tools.
Thanks!

 

[André Gulliksen]

What is Disk Management? I do not see it in my System Tools.

It is under Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. It can also be
opened directly by running 'diskmgmt.msc'.

 

[Alex Nichol]

What is Disk Management? I do not see it in my System Tools.
Thanks!

Not in System Tools. In Control Panel - Admin tools - Computer
Management, Disk management section