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" <> wrote in message
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>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

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" <> wrote in message
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> the e drive as u say is a recovery partition it should b the d drive
>
>
> "Steve Hall" <> wrote in message
> news:E0A919DD-394C-457C-89C8-...
>>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
>

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" <> wrote in message
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>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

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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> 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

I 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?


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"SweHomie" <> wrote in message
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>
> 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

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" <> wrote in message
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>
> 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


You need to use a program like Acronis Disk Director which will safely
create and merge partitions..


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"Tae Song" <> wrote in message
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> "SweHomie" <> wrote in message
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>>
>> 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
>
> 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.


Not a good idea at all..


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On Sun, 31 May 2009 20:39:39 -0500, SweHomie <>
wrote:

>
>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?

Here's what I would do if you have sufficient space left on the C
drive. Copy everything on the D drive over to the C drive. Then Back
up the C drive with Ghost or Acronis or a similar program that makes a
full copy suitable for transfer to a new drive. Then using
Acronis/Ghost restore your C drive Image to what's now your D drive.
When you get done every thing will then be on the 500G drive which
will be your C drive and you can throw out the old D drive or use it
for the virtual memory file drive.