unallocated space

Well, I hate having 2 drives on my laptop, The C drive is always too small.
So I decided to delete the partition, thinking this would make it one drive.
Now the exD drive shows up as unallocated space. How do I join it to the C
drive space, or make the c drive bigger and have a smaller D drive. Thanks.

With third party software (e.g. Partition Magic). Unless you're willing to
repartition your hard disk and do a clean install.

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"MonB" <MonB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A8BA36C5-0F8D-4A2A-9389-66314FE66978@microsoft.com...
> Well, I hate having 2 drives on my laptop, The C drive is always too
small.
> So I decided to delete the partition, thinking this would make it one
drive.
> Now the exD drive shows up as unallocated space. How do I join it to the
C
> drive space, or make the c drive bigger and have a smaller D drive.
Thanks.

can I just rename it for the time being? I am too chicken to do anything now
without asking.

"Ted Zieglar" wrote:

> With third party software (e.g. Partition Magic). Unless you're willing to
> repartition your hard disk and do a clean install.
>
> --
> Ted Zieglar
> "You can do it if you try."
>
> "MonB" <MonB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A8BA36C5-0F8D-4A2A-9389-66314FE66978@microsoft.com...
> > Well, I hate having 2 drives on my laptop, The C drive is always too
> small.
> > So I decided to delete the partition, thinking this would make it one
> drive.
> > Now the exD drive shows up as unallocated space. How do I join it to the
> C
> > drive space, or make the c drive bigger and have a smaller D drive.
> Thanks.
>
>

No. Windows has determined the booting sequence and the booting
drive/partition. Since you are asking this question, I feel that you may not
be too inclined to working with the Windows internal configuration file(s)
(ie: Registry.)

On 01/12/2005 "MonB" <MonB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>can I just rename it for the time being? I am too chicken to do anything now
>without asking.
>
>"Ted Zieglar" wrote:
>
>> With third party software (e.g. Partition Magic). Unless you're willing to
>> repartition your hard disk and do a clean install.
>>
>> --
>> Ted Zieglar
>> "You can do it if you try."
>>
>> "MonB" <MonB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A8BA36C5-0F8D-4A2A-9389-66314FE66978@microsoft.com...
>> > Well, I hate having 2 drives on my laptop, The C drive is always too
>> small.
>> > So I decided to delete the partition, thinking this would make it one
>> drive.
>> > Now the exD drive shows up as unallocated space. How do I join it to the
>> C
>> > drive space, or make the c drive bigger and have a smaller D drive.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>

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Y.

The D drive is a partition which is normally hidden and contains the image
used to restore your computer to it's factory fresh state. If you have not
created a Restore CD set using the software
provided by the manufacturer, and you delete the D partition, you will *NOT*
be able to restore your computer.

Perhaps you should look at getting an external harddrive. They are very
inexpensive.

Bobby

"MonB" <MonB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A8BA36C5-0F8D-4A2A-9389-66314FE66978@microsoft.com...
> Well, I hate having 2 drives on my laptop, The C drive is always too
> small.
> So I decided to delete the partition, thinking this would make it one
> drive.
> Now the exD drive shows up as unallocated space. How do I join it to the
> C
> drive space, or make the c drive bigger and have a smaller D drive.
> Thanks.

Thanks all. I am going to use partition magic.

"NoNoBadDog!" wrote:

> The D drive is a partition which is normally hidden and contains the image
> used to restore your computer to it's factory fresh state. If you have not
> created a Restore CD set using the software
> provided by the manufacturer, and you delete the D partition, you will *NOT*
> be able to restore your computer.
>
> Perhaps you should look at getting an external harddrive. They are very
> inexpensive.
>
> Bobby
>
> "MonB" <MonB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A8BA36C5-0F8D-4A2A-9389-66314FE66978@microsoft.com...
> > Well, I hate having 2 drives on my laptop, The C drive is always too
> > small.
> > So I decided to delete the partition, thinking this would make it one
> > drive.
> > Now the exD drive shows up as unallocated space. How do I join it to the
> > C
> > drive space, or make the c drive bigger and have a smaller D drive.
> > Thanks.
>
>
>