Hard Drive Partitioned?

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It seems that my hard drive is partitioned. DSK_VOL1 (C:), and New Volume (E:).
My C drive has a total of 127 gigs and my E drive has a total of 61.9 gigs.
Does that mean that my hard drive is partitioned? and how do I find out? and,
Is it possible to get rid of the E drive and add the gigs to my C drive??

Thanks for any help
 
Beau said:
It seems that my hard drive is partitioned. DSK_VOL1 (C:), and New Volume (E:).
My C drive has a total of 127 gigs and my E drive has a total of 61.9 gigs.
Does that mean that my hard drive is partitioned? and how do I find out? and,
Is it possible to get rid of the E drive and add the gigs to my C drive??

Thanks for any help
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Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc {OK}. You can now
see how your disk is partitioned.

To delete the E: partition and make the space available to
the C: partition requires a partition manager such as
Acronis Disk Director.
 
The drive may be partitioned but is it formatted. You can do a quick test by
copying a file from C to E.
If the test fails then see what Disk Management shows.

To go to Disk Management on your Windows PC, (right click on the My Computer
icon, then select the Manage option, then in the Computer Management window
select Disk Management).

JS
 
Beau said:
It seems that my hard drive is partitioned. DSK_VOL1 (C:), and New Volume (E:).
My C drive has a total of 127 gigs and my E drive has a total of 61.9 gigs.
Does that mean that my hard drive is partitioned? and how do I find out? and,
Is it possible to get rid of the E drive and add the gigs to my C drive??

Thanks for any help
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Did it come set up this way from the vendor when you bought it? If it's
a major OEM you might want to contact their tech support.
 
Hey Pegasus,
Yes it shows 2 partitions and the E drive says it has a 61.92 gig capacity
and 61.85 free. So I would think that I can safely delete that partition and
free it up for C correct? But I need some disk management program??
 
If you have no files stored on drive E: then you can safely
delete this partition from within Disk Manager. However,
you still need a third-party disk management tool to expand
the first partition non-destructively.
 
Yes it shows 2 partitions and the E drive says it has a 61.92 gig capacity
and 61.85 free. So I would think that I can safely delete that partition and
free it up for C correct? But I need some disk management program??
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Why do you want to do that? It won't speed up your machine or
anything.
 
Beau said:
It seems that my hard drive is partitioned. DSK_VOL1 (C:), and New
Volume (E:). My C drive has a total of 127 gigs and my E drive has a
total of 61.9 gigs. Does that mean that my hard drive is partitioned?
and how do I find out?
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First, a word about the terminology. To partition a drive means to create
one or more partitions on it. So *all drives in use are partitioned.

What you want to know, I assume, is whether you have two partitions on it.
Yes, you do, as you yourself point out.

and, Is it possible to get rid of the E drive
and add the gigs to my C drive??
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Unfortunately, no version of Windows provides any way of changing the
existing partition structure of the drive nondestructively. The only way to
do what you want is with third-party software. Partition Magic is the
best-known such program, but there are freeware/shareware 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.

Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.
 
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