ROM Partitioning

[Guest]

I have an external hard drive, but my 120GB HD is divided 80 in the C:/ Drive
and 40GB in the D:/ Backup Drive. Since I don't need the computer's back-up
drive, is there a way to shift more hard drive memory from the D:/ to the C:/
Drive? thanks.
RAB

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "RAB" <[email protected]>

| I have an external hard drive, but my 120GB HD is divided 80 in the C:/ Drive
| and 40GB in the D:/ Backup Drive. Since I don't need the computer's back-up
| drive, is there a way to shift more hard drive memory from the D:/ to the C:/
| Drive? thanks.
| RAB

Please take your computer to a professional.

Based upon what YOU have posted, yo don't understand the subject matter and you want to get
this doen correctly, not corrupted.

 

[Guest]

David, Thanks for the quick response. To clarify:
1. With an external HD, I feel no need to use another or created drive on my
laptop's HD as a back-up. I have successfully used Norton Ghost to backup to
this external HD.
2. My computer has 120GB ROM on the HD with 40GB set aside for the D:/ drive
as back-up.
3. I want to utilize this 40GB, on my C:/ Drive, rather than let it remain
in tghe D:/ Drive as a backup.

How can I change or re-partition the D:/ Drive and allocate more memory to
the C:/ Drive?
Thnaks,
RAB

 

[Zilbandy]

David, Thanks for the quick response. To clarify:
1. With an external HD, I feel no need to use another or created drive on my
laptop's HD as a back-up. I have successfully used Norton Ghost to backup to
this external HD.
2. My computer has 120GB ROM on the HD with 40GB set aside for the D:/ drive
as back-up.
3. I want to utilize this 40GB, on my C:/ Drive, rather than let it remain
in tghe D:/ Drive as a backup.

How can I change or re-partition the D:/ Drive and allocate more memory to
the C:/ Drive?

Yes, you can. You'll need to purchase additional software to do this
as Windows XP can't do it natively. Expanding on David's reply, take
it to a professional. The cost of having it done "right the first
time" will be comparable to buying the software and taking a chance of
messing it up by not having done it before. If you still want to do it
yourself, one application that will do it is called Partition Magic.
I'll leave it to you to Google to find out more about resizing
partitions without data loss. Oh, by the way, ROM is read only memory
and has nothing to do with disk size.

 

[Anna]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:42:01 -0800, RAB
Yes, you can. You'll need to purchase additional software to do this
as Windows XP can't do it natively. Expanding on David's reply, take
it to a professional. The cost of having it done "right the first
time" will be comparable to buying the software and taking a chance of
messing it up by not having done it before. If you still want to do it
yourself, one application that will do it is called Partition Magic.
I'll leave it to you to Google to find out more about resizing
partitions without data loss. Oh, by the way, ROM is read only memory
and has nothing to do with disk size.

RAB:
Zilbandy is correct in that you cannot manipulate your present partitions
non-destructively within Win XP since that OS does not have that capability.

Moreover, he/she is correct in that it can be done using a third-party
"partition-manager" type program such as the one he mentions, i.e.,
Partition Magic. Many people consider that particular program the "industry
standard" for this type of work. There are, of course, a number of these
type of programs commercially available.

But I might differ with him/her re his/her suggestion that it might be best
for you to have a professional do what you want to do. Your objective is to
"merge" the second partition - your present D: drive - on your boot drive
with your C: drive so that the HDD will contain a single C: partition
encompassing the entire disk space of that HDD. This is not a particularly
complicated process for a partition manager program to undertake nor is it
particularly difficult for a user to use such a program in this type of
situation. And since you're apparently able to successfully use a disk
imaging program such as Symantec's Norton Ghost to perform disk-cloning
operations, I see no reason why you wouldn't have the necessary expertise to
utilize a partition manager type of program along the lines being discussed.

Obviously there would be a cost for such a program but I can't imagine it
would be more expensive than having a professional do the job. And the
program would be yours for future use - not an inconsiderable advantage,
right? I haven't checked current prices for the PM program but the last time
I checked some months ago it was selling for around $40 (the CD, not the
retail boxed version).

A particular advantage in your situation is that *before* undertaking the
partition-merging operation with a partition manager type of program, you
could (and *should*) clone the contents of your boot drive to your external
HDD. We all know things can go wrong and it is wise to have a clone of your
internal HDD in the event the process goes awry.

Obviously only you can make the decision as to which route to take. If you
feel uncomfortable with even the thought of using a partition manager type
of program to achieve your objective, then by all means bring the machine in
to your computer repair shop.
Anna

 

[Zilbandy]

But I might differ with him/her re his/her suggestion that it might be best
for you to have a professional do what you want to do. Your objective is to
"merge" the second partition - your present D: drive - on your boot drive
with your C: drive so that the HDD will contain a single C:

I'm a "him" LOL. Since he said he didn't need D: for anything, I would
simply delete that partition and then resize C: for maximum size. As I
understand merging, that would result in the data on D: being added to
C:. That would consume space on C: for things the original poster said
he didn't need or want. I strongly agree to make an image of C: before
doing anything. Personally, I use Acronis True Image for my imaging
software. I just upgraded to version 10 yesterday, and boy, is it fast
compared to my old version 7.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, MR. Z.

Yes, you can. You'll need to purchase additional software to do this
as Windows XP can't do it natively. Expanding on David's reply, take
it to a professional. The cost of having it done "right the first
time" will be comparable to buying the software and taking a chance of
messing it up by not having done it before. If you still want to do it
yourself, one application that will do it is called Partition Magic.
I'll leave it to you to Google to find out more about resizing
partitions without data loss. Oh, by the way, ROM is read only memory
and has nothing to do with disk size.

--
Zilbandy - Tucson, Arizona USA <[email protected]>
Dead Suburban's Home Page: http://zilbandy.com/suburb/
PGP Public Key: http://zilbandy.com/pgpkey.htm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Ms. Anna!

RAB:
Zilbandy is correct in that you cannot manipulate your present partitions
non-destructively within Win XP since that OS does not have that capability.

Moreover, he/she is correct in that it can be done using a third-party
"partition-manager" type program such as the one he mentions, i.e.,
Partition Magic. Many people consider that particular program the "industry
standard" for this type of work. There are, of course, a number of these
type of programs commercially available.

But I might differ with him/her re his/her suggestion that it might be best
for you to have a professional do what you want to do. Your objective is to
"merge" the second partition - your present D: drive - on your boot drive
with your C: drive so that the HDD will contain a single C: partition
encompassing the entire disk space of that HDD. This is not a particularly
complicated process for a partition manager program to undertake nor is it
particularly difficult for a user to use such a program in this type of
situation. And since you're apparently able to successfully use a disk
imaging program such as Symantec's Norton Ghost to perform disk-cloning
operations, I see no reason why you wouldn't have the necessary expertise to
utilize a partition manager type of program along the lines being discussed.

Obviously there would be a cost for such a program but I can't imagine it
would be more expensive than having a professional do the job. And the
program would be yours for future use - not an inconsiderable advantage,
right? I haven't checked current prices for the PM program but the last time
I checked some months ago it was selling for around $40 (the CD, not the
retail boxed version).

A particular advantage in your situation is that *before* undertaking the
partition-merging operation with a partition manager type of program, you
could (and *should*) clone the contents of your boot drive to your external
HDD. We all know things can go wrong and it is wise to have a clone of your
internal HDD in the event the process goes awry.

Obviously only you can make the decision as to which route to take. If you
feel uncomfortable with even the thought of using a partition manager type
of program to achieve your objective, then by all means bring the machine in
to your computer repair shop.
Anna

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "RAB" <[email protected]>

| David, Thanks for the quick response. To clarify:
| 1. With an external HD, I feel no need to use another or created drive on my
| laptop's HD as a back-up. I have successfully used Norton Ghost to backup to
| this external HD.
| 2. My computer has 120GB ROM on the HD with 40GB set aside for the D:/ drive
| as back-up.
| 3. I want to utilize this 40GB, on my C:/ Drive, rather than let it remain
| in tghe D:/ Drive as a backup.
|
| How can I change or re-partition the D:/ Drive and allocate more memory to
| the C:/ Drive?
| Thnaks,
| RAB


Like I said, you don't uderstand the subject matter. Take it to a prefessional.

Hard disks are NOT ROM.
ROM == Read Only Memory.

By definition a hard disk is Random-Read/Random-Write and can't NOT be Read-Only !

 

[Anna]

I'm a "him" LOL. Since he said he didn't need D: for anything, I would
simply delete that partition and then resize C: for maximum size. As I
understand merging, that would result in the data on D: being added to
C:. That would consume space on C: for things the original poster said
he didn't need or want. I strongly agree to make an image of C: before
doing anything. Personally, I use Acronis True Image for my imaging
software. I just upgraded to version 10 yesterday, and boy, is it fast
compared to my old version 7.

--
Zilbandy - Tucson, Arizona USA <[email protected]>
Dead Suburban's Home Page: http://zilbandy.com/suburb/
PGP Public Key: http://zilbandy.com/pgpkey.htm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Zilbandy:
Yes, he could most certainly do what you suggest should whatever data (if
any) that's on the OP's D: partition be useless to him/her. In any event a
partition manager would be also be necessary to accomplish this as well as a
merging of the present two partitions on the disk. And it's a reasonable
certainty (or so it seems to me from his/her description) that the OP now
desires a single partition on his/her boot drive encompassing the entire
disk space of that disk.

BTW, I find it somewhat surprising that you were apparently still working
until recently with the ATI program version 7. We are long-time users of the
Norton Ghost 2003 program - we've probably used that program over the years
to clone more than a thousand HDDs. When we came across the many positive
reports re the ATI program a couple of years ago we began to experiment with
that program - version 7 was the first one. But in comparison with the Ghost
2003 program we found it quite lacking in reliability and considerably less
than trouble-free. This was particularly so when we used the program where a
mix of PATA & SATA HDDs was involved. Putting it bluntly, we were less than
impressed with the program.

But by & by we did subsequently use the version 8 program which we found a
decided improvement over the older version. And the later version 9 proved,
in our experience, even more stable & functional. So we've been using that
program more & more in comparison with the Ghost 2003 program. And
particularly so where disk imaging (rather than disk cloning) is involved.
The disk (partition) imaging area was always a problem (in our experience)
with the Ghost 2003 program.

We've also been using the ATI version 10 program for the past few weeks. At
this point we really haven't found it to be a significant improvement over
the version 9 program. As a matter of fact we find it hard to tell the
difference between the two versions in terms of the basic disk cloning &
disk imaging functions. Perhaps we'll be more impressed as we gain more
experience with this new version.
Anna

 

[Zilbandy]

When we came across the many positive
reports re the ATI program a couple of years ago we began to experiment with
that program - version 7 was the first one. But in comparison with the Ghost
2003 program we found it quite lacking in reliability and considerably less
than trouble-free.

I'm strictly a home user and only use ATI to make backup images of my
home computer. I backup the computer every 3 days and have been doing
so with this computer for almost 3 years. In my experimenting, I've
had the opportunity to restore images many times. So far, I've never
had a problem (knocking on wood) with either making an image, or
restoring an image from my usb hard drive used for storage. I tried
version 10 the other day and found it would make a backup image in
half the time as version 7. For my current partition size of about
15gb, that cuts my backup time from 27 minutes to under 13 minutes.
So, I spent the 30 bucks and upgraded. I'm not real crazy about the
user interface, but the program works great. Even version 7 worked
great for my usage. Over the years, I've lost faith in Norton, or
should I say Symantec products, so the idea of using Ghost is not
appealing to me.