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    HI, my name is Mr. confused

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jpf, Nov 5, 2009.

  1. jpf

    jpf Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have searched for an answer but have only made myself more confused, will you help?
    last year I bought an acer extensa 5620-4025 vista premium home and 120 GB hdd.
    the hard drive has about 60 GB each for the "c" and "d" drive.
    the "c" drive is filling up fast but the "d" drive is still mostly empty can I make the "c" drive larger say about 90 GB and the "d" about 30 GB without some kind of after market software, just by using vista?
     
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    short answer no, you will need a partition manager
     
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    prikolchik Notebook Evangelist

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    You can download Ubuntu Live CD (it is free), boot from it (flash drive or CD) and use GParted (System->Administration->GParted). Shrink disk D starting from beginning and then extend disk C to the freed space. Takes about 10mins, just be careful about what you are doing :D
     
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    My prefered way as well, but the OP asked if vista could do it alone :eek:
     
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    jpf Notebook Enthusiast

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    hmmm, with computers I am like the little old lady with the Buick. you know what I mean. she can get in the car and drive from point a to point b for ten years and a hundred thousand miles and NEVER know what it looks like under the hood.
    I'm the little old man with the computer, I can turn it on, drive it from point a to point b but know nothing about what's under the hood.
    any time I get instructions that end with "just be careful about what you are doing" I know I am in over my head.
    I was hoping to find something simple but I guess I had better keep my hands off before I mess it up.
    why would acer make such a large "d" drive that will go unused?
    thanks anyway friends for your help.
     
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    Hi, you can merge partitions within Vista without all that 'open source' malarky. Just backup your d drive, right click my computer, left click manage, then disc manager, delete the d partition and extend the c one into the free space. See here http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/
    Chris
     
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    Just a side note: Why don't you just use d: and install some programs there instead of installing them on c:?
     
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    postbusjj, Nov 6, 2009
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