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  1. 06 Jan 2009 #1


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    Hi All,
    I am havein Vista Home Premium instaled on mu laptop.
    there are three partition on my Hard disk
    C: 31 GB
    D: 5 Gb (Recovery disk)
    E : 75 GB
    I wan to format my system and want to merge C:\ drive and E:\ drive as single drive. I have recovery disk with me.
    I dont bother if data is lost on either drive. I just want to reinsitall every thing and create single drive.
    Please help


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  2. 06 Jan 2009 #2
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    Re: Disk Management

    Quote Originally Posted by sachien View Post
    Hi All,
    I am havein Vista Home Premium instaled on mu laptop.
    there are three partition on my Hard disk
    C: 31 GB
    D: 5 Gb (Recovery disk)
    E : 75 GB
    I wan to format my system and want to merge C:\ drive and E:\ drive as single drive. I have recovery disk with me.
    I dont bother if data is lost on either drive. I just want to reinsitall every thing and create single drive.
    Please help
    Sachien, IMO it's not a good idea at all. Instead, you should move your data folders like Desktop, Documents, Downloads, pictures, etc., to drive E, so that if in the future, you need to reinstall the OS and format your primary partition, you do not have to worry about the data. Check this out: Move Documents,Desktop,Videos,Pictures,Downloads to new location in Vista | Windows Reference

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    Re: Disk Management

    Hi sachien,

    As your system specs are not listed I am not sure but is this by chance a Lenovo laptop?

    If so any changes to the partition sizes would stop the system recovery option from working, either from the recovery partition or Disks made from it, as the 31 GB must remain at this size for the system to work.

    Blackstickman is correct in saying that re-organisation is the better option here.

    If you wish to re-organise the partitions then you would need a 3rd party utility as vistas built in not capable to move the D: partition from between the other two, which would be required to combine these.

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  4. 06 Jan 2009 #4


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    Re: Disk Management

    Thanks for sharing that knowledge with me and believe me it was really helpful.

    I need one more help


    I have comebined my both avalaible drives now and i want to do a partition again but it is nor allowing me to shrink more then half of the avalaible space.

    eg

    I am having 108 gb of space in C:

    but when i ma trying to shrink it it allows me only 54 GB to shrink not more than that.

    I remeber it has something to do with virtual memory

    can any body enlightne me on this

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    Re: Disk Management

    Quote Originally Posted by sachien View Post
    Thanks for sharing that knowledge with me and believe me it was really helpful.

    I need one more help


    I have comebined my both avalaible drives now and i want to do a partition again but it is nor allowing me to shrink more then half of the avalaible space.

    eg

    I am having 108 gb of space in C:

    but when i ma trying to shrink it it allows me only 54 GB to shrink not more than that.

    I remeber it has something to do with virtual memory

    can any body enlightne me on this
    Sachien,

    I think it has to do with the partition being fragmented. Defragment the partition. If your disk defragmenter supports offline defrag, run it. Then try to shrink the partition further. It should work.

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