Unpartitioning Hard Drive--Help!!!!!!!!!

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Hello.
Currently, my computer's hard drive is partioned into
a "C" and "D" drive, with the "C" drive containing all my
applications and files, and the "D" drive is empty. I am
not very 'well to do' with computers and I am in dire
need of help in deleting my "D" drive so that all my
space will only be on the "C" drive.

Could someone please, in very easy to understand terms,
explain how I could delete the "D" drive and apply all
that free space to my "C" drive, without losing any
information in my "C" drive? E-mail me if possible.
Thanks very much for your help.
 
FITMUS said:
Currently, my computer's hard drive is partioned into
a "C" and "D" drive, with the "C" drive containing all my
applications and files, and the "D" drive is empty. I am
not very 'well to do' with computers and I am in dire
need of help in deleting my "D" drive so that all my
space will only be on the "C" drive.

Could someone please, in very easy to understand terms,
explain how I could delete the "D" drive and apply all
that free space to my "C" drive, without losing any
information in my "C" drive? E-mail me if possible.
Thanks very much for your help.
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Purchase Partition Magic. Use it.
Good Luck.
 
FITMUS said:
Hello.
Currently, my computer's hard drive is partioned into
a "C" and "D" drive, with the "C" drive containing all my
applications and files, and the "D" drive is empty. I am
not very 'well to do' with computers and I am in dire
need of help in deleting my "D" drive so that all my
space will only be on the "C" drive.

Could someone please, in very easy to understand terms,
explain how I could delete the "D" drive and apply all
that free space to my "C" drive, without losing any
information in my "C" drive? E-mail me if possible.
Thanks very much for your help.
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Changing the partition structure of a hard drive without destroying
the existing contents is a task that does require a reasonable amount
of knowledge about computer, especially about hard disks and
partitions.

There are commercial utilities available that can do this work, and
Partition Magic from http://www.powerquest.com is probably the best
and also the easiest to use.

However it is also fairly simple, once you understand the concepts, to
use the second disk drive for many of your files, thereby reducing the
amount of space used on drive C:.

For example, when you install a new application you can almost always
change the location where the main files for that program are
installed. It is not mandatory to always install applications to the
C:\Program Files folder.

Similarly when you save a file you are not compelled to save it in the
My Documents folder. You can create a folder (or a series of folders
and subfolders) on the D: drive and save your files there. You could
also copy the existing data files to these new folders and then delete
them from the C: drive once you were confident that you can find and
use the files in their new location.

However with already installed programs what you would have to do is
to first uninstall the program (using Control Panel - Add/Remove
Programs) and then reinstall it and this time change the install
location to a folder on drive D:

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 
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