please help me

[Guest]

I dont know too much about what i am doing. I got my computer from my
brother. When I got it the hard drive had 2 parts(C 1.99 gig and D 35 gig). C
is my primary drive. I keep running out of room. windows will not let me
format the c drive and I do not know how to get more space from the D drive
or even combine them. please help me. I have windows xp pro.

 

[Guest]

In order to comine or resize drives in windows that are already established a
third party application is required such as Paragon Partition Manager,
Acronis, or Partition Commander etc. Beware anytime you partition your drive
there is a risk of loosing data, O/S, etc.

 

[MAP]

I dont know too much about what i am doing. I got my computer from my
brother. When I got it the hard drive had 2 parts(C 1.99 gig and D 35
gig). C is my primary drive. I keep running out of room. windows will
not let me format the c drive and I do not know how to get more space
from the D drive or even combine them. please help me. I have windows
xp pro.

Sounds like your brother has setup the operating system on "c drive" and has
"d drive" for everything else, when you download/install or save something
just save it to drive "D" and leave c drive alone.

 

[Tim Slattery]

I dont know too much about what i am doing. I got my computer from my
brother. When I got it the hard drive had 2 parts(C 1.99 gig and D 35 gig). C
is my primary drive. I keep running out of room. windows will not let me
format the c drive and I do not know how to get more space from the D drive
or even combine them. please help me. I have windows xp pro.

You're in a bind, all right. 1.99GB is really too small a partition
for the XP system to reside on. But nothing that comes with XP (or any
other Windows OS) can resize partitions dynamically. To do that you
need third party software.

Partition Magic (www.symantec.com/partitionmagic) or BootItNG
(http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html) can do this. Neither
is free, but there are some partitioning utilities that are I think.
Google is your friend.