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Answer 1
Go to: Control Panel
Admin Tools
Computer management
Disc management
On the right hand side, you will see your hard drives. Right click near the bottom, and you could see 2 partitions on the same drive. From here, you can then remove the partition, and reformat the drive in question.
Answer 2
You can purchase partitioning software that will help you. Partition Commander seems to be quite intuitive, but go to your local "geek store" and ask which one they recommend.
Answer 3
I added a link in the links section that saved me buying Partition Manager. Windows 7 has this capability built in and I was able to use it to extend the OS partition.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 15y agoA hard drive is a physical object, like a cake. A hard drive can be partitioned into parts, just like a cake.
Your operating system (i.e. Windows) could lead you to believe you have many hard drives when in fact it is the one hard drive, with many drives/partitions.
If you wish to merge partitions then you can use a tool like Partition Magic
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∙ 13y agoIf it's a Windows PC, go to Control Panel, select Administrative Tools then choose Computer Management.Go to Disk Management, right click on some free space and choose new volume.
Any other OS, I'm not sure - sorry!
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∙ 13y agoIn Windows XP and later, you may right-click on My Computer, choose Manage..., then choose Disk Management.
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How can you partation your harddisk?
Yes, there are commercial products for this purpose. Partition magic is one of the genre.
How do you partition one harddisk to 3 partitions?
Just use a magic partition manager to help you. You can create, resize, move, format, delete, shrink, extend partiton freely with this nice partition tool. Such as miniaide magic partition,minitool partition wizard(free), you can experience the cool magic partition right away.
How many number of partition in 80GB hard disk?
u can make 4 partitions in 80 gb harddisk of 19000! simple
What is the difference between drive c and d on the computer hardrive?
c: is that partition of ur harddisk from where ur system boots and d drive is any other partition.
You purchase 40GB IDE hard disk drive and create 3 partition but after some time any problem format this hardisk by window xp CD no show any partition but other system connect this harddisk insecender?
You purchase 40GB IDE hard disk drive and create 3 partition but after some time any problem format this hardisk by window xp CD no show any partition but other system connect this harddisk in secendery channel show all partition.?pls tell me how to removed this problem.In: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/4311, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/5453 [Edit categories] capitalOneround('alternateMsg');
How many partitions can be created on a given harddisk?
4 ----- Dhyan Tripathi You can have 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition containing any number of logical partitions. While you can assign a drive letter to a partition, you can also map it as
How do you connect one harddisk to another harddisk as i have 80 gb harddisk?
hard-disk
Can you run the movie stored in the portable usb harddisk directly from the DVD player with USB option?
you can the hard drive must be formatted in fat32 with a partition of 127 gig (max for fat32) any more and it won't recognise the files. mine will not recognise the second partition but i use it for storing movies i am not watching i change the around when i want to watch a different set.
How do you know if a hard drive is 40 GB or 80 GB?
If you have harddisk in hand outside of a computer you can read the model details and specifications printed on the harddisk. If it is inside a computer and you are running the computer with a Windows operating system, you can use File Explorer or My Computer icon to see the harddisk details. If it is a C: drive you can also right click and see properties which will show you total size, used and free space (this size is based on partition information of the drive and is it has more than one partitions or have space that has not been used in the logical drive partition it may show less size compared to the actual physical capacity of the HDD. For more details in a Windows XP machine you can also go to Start-> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management This will give you all the details you need to know about the harddisk drives installed in the computer. - Neeraj Sharma
Can you use RAM as a HardDisk?
no you can not
Harddisk is which type of device?
A (harddisk) is a hard drive that stores and provides quick access to large amounts of data.
Will windows 3.11 be able to handle a harddisk on 2 Terabytes?
Sadly, no. Win 3.1 needs a FAT16 formatted drive which has a limit of 2.1GB per partition. In order to use the all of the space, a larger drive would have to be broken up into 2.1GB partitions.
