HDD Partition

by **Chriss** » August 22, 2010, 12:14 pm

Can I remove the partition on my hard drive (it's currently a C and a D drive) so I have just 1 C drive without a complete reinstall of the OS?

by **Charlieb** » August 22, 2010, 1:24 pm

From: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_re ... hard_drive

• Open the Control Panel.

• Open Administrative Tools.

• Open Computer Management.

• In the left pane, under Storage, open Disk Management.

• The right pane should show a list of your drives, by letter, above a diagram of what partitions they have if any.

• Right-click within any of the fields below the colored bars, and select Delete Partition.

This is correct but be careful because you will delete all the files etc on the partition too.
Another way to get to it is right click on My Computer and click Manage. Then continue as above.

• It is recommended that you do not remove a partition if you can at all live with the partition being on your hard drive. It is documented that removing a partition can be detrimental and cause major problems within the windows environment.

• Remove partitions within windows at your own risk!!

by **Chriss** » August 22, 2010, 1:30 pm

Thanks Charlie, now why didn't I find that in wiki when I searched for it..........Hhhmm
I want to get rid of the partition because I just bought an external HDD for all my backups etc, it would just be easier if I only had 1 HDD on the PC. Will give it some thought though.

Has anyone out there in forumland done this before?

by **jackspratt** » August 22, 2010, 1:31 pm

No need to do a re-install.

I note from the other post you appear to be using XP. Have a look here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/
and about half way down the page you will see this "How to delete a partition or a logical drive". You will lose any data in the partition, so back it up if you need to.

Any space created by the deletion will be unallocated, so if you want to add that space to the C drive, you need to look further up the page to "How to use Disk Management". This will show you how to expand C.

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