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Partitioned C Drive HD as External?
Name: vcheng79 Date: October 20, 2006 at 05:30:22 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: not sure Product: not sure
Comment:
Is it possible to use an originally partitioned C drive (2 80Gb "merge" together to become a 160Gb harddisk) as an external drive?
Name: voltage Date: October 20, 2006 at 05:47:03 Pacific
Reply:
Reformat the drive and make it only 1 partition (160gb). Buy an external hard drive enclosure.
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Response Number 2
Name: Badboy Date: October 20, 2006 at 05:54:03 Pacific
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You can put it in an enclosure and, unless it's buggered up, you should be able to see both partitions when you explore the drive.
But you won't be able to boot in a WINXP OS on the existing C: partition ... unless you know something that MS would like you to not know.
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Response Number 3
Name: vcheng79 Date: October 20, 2006 at 07:55:28 Pacific
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but is it still possible for me to access the information in the C Drive?
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Response Number 4
Name: Badboy Date: October 20, 2006 at 08:12:41 Pacific
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Yes, vcheng, if this is an IDE HDD that whose partition table is not corrupted, you should be able to put this drive into and external HDD enclosure and view its contents from another computer.
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Response Number 5
Name: Goldenknob Date: October 20, 2006 at 08:36:47 Pacific
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if you merge them together in the basic way then you will lose the info in the C drive partition. there are programs that are supose to be able to change up your partitions with out much lose of data. Partition magic can do it for you as there are other programs also..
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