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tracyg

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Dual hard drive problem (?)
« on: September 30, 2005, 12:54:05 AM »
I have a HP Pavilon 752n running XP. Their was a bad volume the other day and it would no longer boot up, so I did the system recovery.  The system has
two hard disks. (Or one which is divided? not sure, I'm clueless here.)  C: which has 52GB of space and the D:
(recovery Drive) which has 6GB of space. Currently
it's running on the recovery drive so obviously I'm
running out of space.

I know C has been formatted because there is an
enormous amount of freespace (much more than before
the recovery).  So how do I get it to boot off just
the C: drive so I can have more space.

The harddrive brand and model is Maxtor 4D060H3 if that helps.

Am I being totally ignorant? I thought the recovery
thing was pretty straight forward but now I'm really
confused.

I would greatly appreciate any advice you can give me. I'm lost!
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    Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
    « Reply #1 on: September 30, 2005, 01:22:40 AM »
    You have 2 partitions on 1 drive.
    You are running on c drive.
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    tracyg

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    Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
    « Reply #2 on: September 30, 2005, 01:24:32 AM »
    That doesn't really help. Why is it telling me that I don't have enough memory and it's sucking all the memory out of the recovery disk and none from the normal one?
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      Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
      « Reply #3 on: September 30, 2005, 01:28:09 AM »
      What tells you that you don't have enough memory?
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      tracyg

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      Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
      « Reply #4 on: September 30, 2005, 01:30:33 AM »
      Several programs. Works, foxfire... when I try to preform a task  (for example.. copying some text to Works processor) says can't preform action because not enough memory. I have no additional software loaded on my system since the recovery.

      When I looked at the drive. almost all the space on the recovery is taken. How do I get it to use the space on the other partitian?
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        Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
        « Reply #5 on: September 30, 2005, 01:33:53 AM »
        Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'.
        How much RAM does it show?
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        tracyg

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        Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
        « Reply #6 on: September 30, 2005, 01:34:30 AM »
        504 MB
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          Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
          « Reply #7 on: September 30, 2005, 01:38:41 AM »
          Re-start in safe mode & see if you can copy stuff then.
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          Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
          « Reply #8 on: September 30, 2005, 01:46:59 AM »
          It let me copy that time. But I was unable to access the net, so I couldn't  copy the exact same info as before.  But I didn't get a memory message when I went to paste it.
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            Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
            « Reply #9 on: September 30, 2005, 01:50:09 AM »
            Run both of these free scans.

            Free online virus scan
            http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
            Free online spyware scan
            http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/spyxposer/com/spyxposer_principal.htm

            It might be the virus that sucked my memory out!  :o
            « Last Edit: September 30, 2005, 01:51:01 AM by Fed »
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              Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
              « Reply #10 on: September 30, 2005, 01:55:01 AM »
              tracyg.......... It sounds like you have one hard drive ....as Fed has already suggested ..... It is a 60 gb drive and it contains a partition .... so you see two drives .......drive C: is 52 gb and drive D: is approx 6gb.
              I think what has happened is you have formatted C: drive and have removed the operating system and everything else that was on there . What you must do is copy the contents of drive D onto drive C ........
              Right now you have everything trying to run on 6gb of disk space .
              Hope this is of some help.

              dl65  ::)
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              tracyg

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              Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
              « Reply #11 on: September 30, 2005, 01:57:30 AM »
              The scans came back negative for both.  As for copying the stuff over is it really that simple? Do I just manually drag everything over or is there something else I should do.


              And yes, I reformatted the drive and it was wiped clean. Since, it's only putting stuff on the D: drive.
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                Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
                « Reply #12 on: September 30, 2005, 02:02:14 AM »
                I'll sit on the fence with this for a bit DL65, hopefully I'll learn some stuff.  :)
                I've always wondered exactly what system recovery did.
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                Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
                « Reply #13 on: September 30, 2005, 02:03:22 AM »
                Either way Fed your help was much appreciated. If you hadn't started answering me when you did, I probably wouldn't have any hair left in my head.
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                  Re: Dual hard drive problem (?)
                  « Reply #14 on: September 30, 2005, 02:07:10 AM »
                  At least you have no viruses.  :D
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