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Partitioned Hard Drive
« on: November 18, 2007, 04:39:35 PM »
Recently I've been getting errors about low disk space. So I've cleaned out most of my drive, deleting old programs and the such, but I've made a discovery.

My hard drive has been partitioned.
How/when/why I did this, I have no idea. But I somehow have. To be perfectly honest, I think this may of been like this from the beginning as RECOVER is FAT32 and I never converted it.

BOOT is the main drive. It has over 30gb and I've used 96%. I can't defrag it either so I'm planning on moving my music folder over to the BACKUP drive. However. The BACKUP drive has some scary *censored* files in it that I have no idea what they are. Inside their are .log files.

My question is, is there a way that I can reverse that partitioning of the drive or is it possible for me to just randomly plant another folder in that part of the drive.

Screenshots:
A print screen of the Backup drive.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g134/xsugamamax99/Backuppped.jpg

Tech:
Hard Drive: 80GB (Boot C: 37.1GB, Backup D: 32.2 GB, Recover E: 5.17 GB)
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    Re: Partitioned Hard Drive
    « Reply #1 on: November 18, 2007, 08:57:43 PM »
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    " My question is, is there a way that I can reverse that partitioning of the drive or is it possible for me to just randomly plant another folder in that part of the drive."

    you cannot reverse / get rid of that partition without wiping  hd  clean

    you should be able to create a  new  folder
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    Re: Partitioned Hard Drive
    « Reply #2 on: November 19, 2007, 09:36:03 AM »
    With 4% free on your boot drive i'm suprised this machine even runs...
    At this point it would be best to backup your data, read up on partitioning strategies and format and do a clean install...

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    Re: Partitioned Hard Drive
    « Reply #3 on: November 19, 2007, 09:57:40 AM »
    Ew, formating is what I've been wanting to avoid. But me thinks it's badly needed actually.

    That's what I'm gonna do soon then. Thanks.