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    Reformat and Partitions

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by citric, May 23, 2006.

  1. citric

    citric Notebook Consultant

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    So I reformatted fine and everything is working. Only issue I have now is that there are still three partition. ONe is a 47mb Unallocated partion, another is the 87gb NTFS main partition, and then there's another 4.65 gb unallocated paritition.

    How can I combine all of the partition into one complete partition so I can have the full use of my 91.75GBs?
     
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  2. Tim

    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    Is one of those partitions your backup partition? If so you will not want to combine that one. When you reformat there was an option to delete the partitions. That is what you should have done. Deleteing the partitions turn them into one big partition. However you would not want to do this with you recovery partition.
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    citric Notebook Consultant

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    i have the Restore Disc, ordered it for the extra $10.

    I did delete the partitions during the reformat, but it didn't combine them together.

    In Disk Management, when I right click on the C: drive (as a whole) there is an option to "Convert to Dynamic Disk..." is this what I want to do?
     
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    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    No I don't think that is it. I would reformat again if I were you. Unless it would be too much work. I have never combined drives outside of the windows install so I am not sure if there are other options. Does anyone else know how to do this without reformating again.
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    citric Notebook Consultant

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    that would be nice... i think if need be I might find a trial version of parition magic, unless someone has a better way
     
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    USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer

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    I think partition magic is going to be your best bet. :p
     
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    Yeah I tried that partition joining stuff. I can't remember which program I used. My only advice would DON'T install or save anything new until you join the partitions. My laptop got screwed up when I joined the partitions. Good luck! :)
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    citric Notebook Consultant

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    well fortunately i havent really installed much except for iTunes and FireFox. And the drivers... so I'm hoping that this will work.
     
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    The problem is when the stupid repair or whatever partition is physically the first on disk. In that case your C: is actually the second partition. You join the partitions and end up with screwed comp because Windows loader doesn't know about the letters. It knows only about the volume id. And it is not 0. It is 1. I used disk partition manager and it also didn't manage to solve the problem. I had to reinstall. Now it was two years ago, maybe today's tools are more inteligent.

    Cheers,
     
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    ok, I got the 4.65gb to merge into the main one fine. I think I'll just leave the 47 mb one considering it's not even 50mb and I dont want to go through that hassle.
     
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