Hard Drives

[Summerford]

I have had computer problems before. I have 4 hard disk drives (C; D; E; F)
and I would like to know if I can combine these and how I would do this.

 

[sgopus]

Please be explicit in your questions, what do you mean combine them?
Physically no you can't.
If your asking if you can move data from one disk to another to lessen the
spread of info down to just a few HD's, then the answer depends on what
amount of free space you have on each HD, and what amount of space the data
is taking up.

Saying you've had computer problems before, doesn't tell us anything.

Do you actually have 4 physical Hard drives, or are these just partitions on
one drive? Did you install them or someone else?

 

[Summerford]

the drives are partitions. Everything that I am working with now is saving to
drive c and i would like it to save on drive d

 

[sgopus]

I see, in that case to join partitions, you will need a third party software
like disk director, Xp doesn't have this ability natively.

Again I caution you, be explicit in your info, when you say everything saves
to C and you want to save to D, why not just manually choose where you want
to save data, ie the operating system defaults to my documents when saving
documents generally, but you are not locked in to that, you can change the
location to wherever you want ie D:

So please explain what programs your talking about and what data your
saving, and where, not just Drive C:

 

[Norman]

caution when saving data to other partitions. System Restore may cause you
to lose that data if you restore.
By default there are some places such as My Documents that system restore
does not touch so that you will not undo that data.
If you choose to save or archive data to a different partition, you might
want to turn system restore off for that partition or drive.