Installed new 250 gig HD but...

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

It's installed, windows recognizes it and everything, but when I go into my computer, it's divided into two drives. I have my main C drive, which is a 160 gig, but then the 250 is seperated into two parts; one of which has all the actual necessary files (windows, program files, etc) whereas the other one is just empty. They both equal up to the right amount, I just want to know how to make it into a "single" drive. And no, I'm not running them in RAID configuration as that shit took like 4 hours to figure out only to have me just do them standalone.

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[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

On "some" mother boards you need BIOS updates to have drives larger than X gigs..... I believe there are windows drivers for that as well. If all of that is in order you should be able to re-format the drive and delete the 2 partitions.....

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

It's installed, windows recognizes it and everything, but when I go into my computer, it's divided into two drives. I have my main C drive, which is a 160 gig, but then the 250 is seperated into two parts; one of which has all the actual necessary files (windows, program files, etc) whereas the other one is just empty. They both equal up to the right amount, I just want to know how to make it into a "single" drive. And no, I'm not running them in RAID configuration as that shit took like 4 hours to figure out only to have me just do them standalone.

not enough info. did you install some kind of backup software too? or is the FIRST thing you did was look at the new HD and see two partitions? You might format the new drive if it isn't brand new...you should've had to do that on a new drive anyway.

if you're on XP, right click my computer/manage/disk management and poke around in there a bit..you should see the physical drives as well as any partitions put on 'em, etc.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Thanks y'all. Yeah, when I went to go format the new drive, there were two partitions. I only formatted one, and once the computer started up again I formatted the other. They're still seperated though.

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

Thanks y'all. Yeah, when I went to go format the new drive, there were two partitions. I only formatted one, and once the computer started up again I formatted the other. They're still seperated though.

okay, this time delete all the partitions on the new drive you bought.

there's also a way when you have a clean drive, freshly formatted to NOT mount it as a drive letter, make it a FOLDER on your other drive if you choose.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Wait so how do I go back and delete the partitions? Explain this to me, I haven't installed a HD before. Also, my stupid *** wireless adapter needs new drivers, so I'm on my parent's computer and not up on mine.

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

do that crap i told you earlier...once in disk management you can right click on the physical graph of the drive and do that stuff. G/L.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Thank ya sir.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

If you can afford to lose the data on the drive, partition it manually.

If not, I believe Partition Magic will rejoin the partitions for you.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

I mean, there's nothing on it right now except for my Downloads folder (transferred from C:\ because its 88 gigs on 149 gigs of harddrive), but I can move that back.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

Move that to the other physical HD, and FDISK the 250, create one partition, set it active if you want to boot it, and enjoy.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

It's all taken care of..//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/woot.gif.aaa6090e619a97b6090d16dd863c5a69.gif

I got ruckus' partition magic off Oink, and then i reformatted it and it's gold! UNFORTUNATELY: there was an error and I lost recognition of the drive, and as such, I lost my 90 gig download folder (including all my....videos). //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif

Oh well, it's worth it I guess.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Just got my RAM in, soon to have 1.5gb in this motha //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/woot.gif.aaa6090e619a97b6090d16dd863c5a69.gif

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

Holy shit it's like night and day. Thanks to all who was helping me through this all.

 

[alove_85 10+ year member]

I've been using partition magic for years. I love that program //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif