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Ed,
I've had much experience with partitions so I can help you. When
you create 1 partition on your master drive it is, as you know, C: and
your primary partition. When you create 1 partition on your second
slave drive it is, as you know, D: and its primary partition.
Although this doesn't apply to you, you should know each drive can have
up to 4 primary partitions but only one can be active and seen by your
O/S. FDISK will allow you to create more than 1 primary partition
and choose which is active.
After you create a primary partition, you create your Extended partition
for the rest of the drive. Inside your Extended partition, you create
logical partitions. With FDISK, once you create a drive, you cannot
resize it. This is where you are having trouble. With your
deleted E: logical partition inside your Extended partition, you now have
a large empty space there. Since your E: partition encompassed your
entire Extended partition of your master drive, your entire Extended partition
is empty.
The easiest way to increase your C: partition is to use PM to delete
your Extended partition and resize your C: partition.
Another way is to use some type of free partition copy software, such
as which comes with hard drives sometimes, to copy it to another hard drive,
delete all the partitions on your original drive, and finally copy the
C: partition back. I once used Western Digital's HDD software which
comes with their drives and it was total junk. It did an excellent
job of trashing my HDD's partition table and it took me days to figure
out how to fix it.
The third and final way you already know and is the hardest. Backup
the entire C: partition to tape, use FDISK to delete all partitions, recreate
C:, and restore from tape. Problem with this method is that I'm not
exactly sure how you're going to use your tape backup software if you have
deleted all your software on your C: partition. Even if you have
your tape backup software on D:, the software uses your Windows Registry
and you have, of course, deleted it (and that's not good, that's a baaad
thing LOL). And let's not forget about those shared Windows\System
files your backup software uses (it may get a bit upset when it can't find
them ).
If you don't want to reinstall your entire system, it would behoove
you to buy PM. Because your drives are under 8 GB, maybe you can
borrow PM v3.05 from someone. You can copy the main files onto a
floppy and use PM from there.
Some further information for you: Your O/S will first recognize
the active primary partition in your master drive, then the active primary
partition in your slave drive, then the logical partitions in the extended
partition in your master drive, and finally the logical partitions in the
extended partition in your slave drive. The active primary partition
in your master drive is always the boot partition.
Good Luck,
Daniel.
Ed Middleton wrote:
Hugh,I'm running windows 95 original.
I have 2 physical hard drives. One is Drive D. The other was
partitioned into drives C and E. I deleted E with FDisk and thought
C would just expand by that much. Is there anyother way to expand
the C: portion other than partition magic or copying all the data to a
tape backup (which I have) and reformatting the C: drive. Is this
a possible solution? thanks, Ed
----- Original Message -----
From:Hugh
Valliant
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999
5:32 PM
Subject: Re: OT-Hard disk Help Needed
And a not so quick answer....
A number of questions before the answer....
1.What version of Windows are you running?? Win95
original... Win95B... Win95C... Win98... Win98SE... WinNT???
2.Where did drive D go to?? ------> important question!!!!
3.Depending on the version of Windows, you may have to
reformat the hard drive and lose ALL your data to reclaim the 1.3GB.
Is this what you want???
4Depending on the version of Windows, you will have to
use a program such as PartitionMagic to recalim the 1.3GB.
BE SURE TO BACK UP YOUR HARD DRIVE BEFORE
ATTEMPTING THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE MORE THAN 32MB OF RAM
BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FROM REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE..... DISREGARD
THIS 32MB RULE .... AND YOU'LL BE SORRY...
The PartitionMagic people STILL... after 2 weeks, have
not responded to my request as to how to "fix" my problem... I had
16MB of RAM. In their readme file it says you should have 32MB before resizing/moving
large partitions... but who reads the readme file beforehand....
Eventually, and not hearing from PartitionMagic.... an EXCELLENT product
BTW, I reforamted my hard drive and lost everything!!!
Strongly suggest getting a "qualified" computer technician to assist
you.....
This stuff is "NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART"!!!!
Hope this helps.... probably not what you wanted to hear...... heh....
that's life...
Let me know if I can be of any other assistance..
Hugh
At 04:29 PM 11/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
Just a quick question.
a) I removed a partition that I had on one of my hard drives (ie.
I removed
drive e:). It was a partition of c:. After the removal
(with FDisk) I
don't get a larger c: drive. The hard disk is 3.1GB and that
should all be
the c: drive. I am only getting a reading of 1.9GB.
b) On startup if I enter setup there is a 3.1GB hard drive. It
appears that
windows is not recognizing the extra 1.2 GB or that the C: drive must
be
reconfigured.
Any suggestions would greatly help.
Thanks in advance for any leads,
Ed
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