Vista - Can I combine two hard disks together?

I have a Toshiba laptop and it has come with a single 120Gb hard disk.
However it is partitioned into a C drive and an E drive split 50:50. I
don't really need to have two seperate areas in this way and would like to
combine them together to have a single logical drive on the laptop. Can I
do this from within Windows Vista that is installed on the laptop?

Thanks

Steve

the e drive as u say is a recovery partition it should b the d drive


"Steve Hall" <stevehall1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Steve,

Yes you can with Vista's Disk Management. You will lose whatever is on the E drive though, so be sure to backup anything you do not want to lose first. You will not lose anything on the C: drive, so it will be safe to backup the E drive there if you like. This tutorial will show you how to do this step by step.

Disk Management - Delete and Extend


WARNING:
If this is a "Recovery Partition", then be sure that you have a Vista Recovery DVD or Installation DVD first. Otherwise you will not be able to reinstall Vista again using that E: partition.

Shawn

Unlikely, the hidden recovery partition would be in the order of 10gb or
less
D is likely the dvd/cd

And if the laptop is ever recovered to origonal configeration then both
partitions would likely be recreated

"Jon Pope" <mrjonpope@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Provided that a) the two volumes are contiguous (ie: next to each other) and
b) that E: is not your recovery volume, then all you need do is run disk
manager (diskmgmt.msc) and remove the E: volume. Then expand C: to encompass
the resulting free (unallocated) space. If they are not contiguous, then you
will need third party software to manipulate them so that they are. You can
only expand a volume into free space that is immediately after it, not in
front of it.

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"Steve Hall" <stevehall1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"DL" <address@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Oj3sfLnkIHA.1208@xxxxxxI agree, the D:| drive is the CD/DVD. I've got three Toshiba's in the
family, none of them have recovery partitions, they all use recovery disks.

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have two local disk drives C and D and i have a 500GB HD my C drive is only 49.83GB my D drive is 9.77GB and there is 407.17BG remaing and ive tried to combine them both but when i go to extend hard drisk its in grey and it will not let me click it. i do lots of gaming so i need a big harddrive and i cant have them split up like this it wont let me play so many games on a 48 GB hard drive any suggestions in what to do?

"SweHomie" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:a472080771c3353ca20ec3d5f3f8a4e8@xxxxxx-gateway.com...You have to convert the disks to dynamic first in disk management. I am not
sure I would recommend doing this, if one of the drives dies you could end
up losing data on both drives.

"SweHomie" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:a472080771c3353ca20ec3d5f3f8a4e8@xxxxxx-gateway.com...
You need to use a program like Acronis Disk Director which will safely
create and merge partitions..


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"Tae Song" <tae_song@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not a good idea at all..


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