Have 10 gig with C, D, and E. Will add another hard drive, bigger, but want to use as C. Know that the new drive will automatically be labelled as D, pushing D and E on the C drive to E and F on the C drive to have: C: With E and F D: Extended Want to copy E and F to D and make C one big partition again. Is the best way to do this as follows: Ghost C partition to D Copy E and F partition files to D Repartition and format C making it one big C drive. Then reapplying the ghost image on D to C as the boot partition. Thanks!!!!!!!

****Want to make the C drive all one drive as one big C partition and make D the extended. Current setup: C with partitions D and E Adding another hard drive Which will make the setting: C with partitions E and F D for the extended partition of the new HD Need to copy E and F to D and image C partition to D to as ghost image, reformat C making it one big C drive, then restore the Ghost image from D to C. What is the best way. Thanks!!!!

So, will your new drive have files or the actual partitions currently on your original HDD in the D: and E: partitions?

So, Which way do you want it? Initial Post - New Big Drive As C Problem - Your procedure doesn't make the new drive C. Response 1 - Old Drive C stays C, Other Partitions Move To New Drive? Presentlt Old Drive C Primary D Extended logical E Extended logical Your new drive is not necessarily D. If partitioned as Extended only, F logical (Ghosted-C & copy-D) and G logical (copy-E) If partitioned standard D - primary (Ghosted-C & copy-D) and G Extended logical (copy-E) After repartition the old drive your drive letters would be C old drive D and E new drive. I would use Partition Magic For Initial Post - New Big Drive C Clone C on old Drive to new Drive Swap Drives - New Drive - C Old Drive D E F Erase D (old C) and Copy E (old D) to D Delete E (old-D) Expand F (old-E) Reboot - Drives on old now D and E For Response 1 - D and E to new drive Copy Existing D on old drive To new Drive Copy Existing E on old Drive to new Drive Delete Existing D and E on old Drive Expand C to Whole Disk Reboot

Before adding new drive which will be added as storage only the drives are as follows: C primary with partitions D and E located within C After adding new hard drive the drive letters automatically change, they will be changed to: C primary with partitions now E and F D will now be the new extra drive with no partitions. ---------- Want to retain info from E and F and copy to the new D hard drive and get rid of partitions E and F on primary C and make C primary one big partition only again, no extended for C just one big C partition. Problem - all settings for internet cable are already configured on the C primary but in order to get rid of E and F the normal way, I do have to repartition and format the whole C drive. So I was going to hook it up the usual way when u had a extra hard drive, copying E and F to the newly named extra hard drive of D, then ghost the C partition containing the configuration to the new hard drive D, and then repartition and format which is the only way I know to get rid of the e and f parititions and make C back one huge drive again. And then restore the C partition of the image saved on the new hard drive D to C. I only need to after installation when the computer renames the drives C for primary and D for extra to copy the info from E and F and change C back to one partition but saving the info on C with cable setup, but the problem likes is that I have to retain C for cable settings. Also would like to know as I have heard to avoid the drive letters from changing, that something can be done to stop this, when you add an extra hard drive, would like to know as on my old one I had several partitions in C which was all changed when I added D in my computer I currently have. Thanks.

Adding a new drive does not automatically create a new drive letter. Only after the drive is partitioned and the system rebooted is a drive letter assigned. Assuming the new drive is not one the primary channel, if a partition on the new drive is created primary then when the system is rebooted then that partition will become D after the system is rebooted. Or, if NO primary partition is created on the new drive, Only logical drives in an Extended partition, then the drive letters will assigned following the designations of the original drive. Your example Old drive Primary C Extended Logical D Logical E --------------- New drive - Primary & Extended Primary ? Extended Logical ? System with 2 drives Old drive Primary C Extended Logical E Logical F New Drive Primary D Extended Logical G -------------- New Drive - Extended only Extended Logical ? Logical ? System with 2 drives Old drive Primary C Extended Logical D Logical E New Drive Extended Logical F Logical G ------------- The Drive letters will change as you delete the unwanted partitions, after the data is moved (copied). The following assumptions are now based on retaining old drive C as the boot drive. How it is done depends upon the software tools you have and what you want where. In my method I use Partition Magic.

Thanks, I have done this before and after repartition and format all "physical" hard drives take on the alphabet starting with C one right behind the other, i.e. hard drive 1 - C, hard drive 2 - D. I have learned not to name partitions D as if u add a drive, it will rename them. Will use ghost to clone C to physical D, then reformat and partition C continging E and F back into one Big C drive, then use the Ghost image to replace C. Thanks!!!!!!!!