A friend "partitioned" my hard drive into 2 hard drives, "C" and "D" and my C drive, the main one, is down to 129 megs and I hardly use the "D" drive which had about 40 gigs on it. How do I restore some of the memory from the "D" drive to the "C" drive?

I am uploading audio and pics and I hardly have memory left but I don't understand how the two work so I would rather get some of the "D" memory back to the "C" memory and increase it back up to gigs instead of 129 megs I now have in the "C" drive. Help! The person who did this is no longer available and I can't figure it out from the xp help files.

You will need a third party application from vendors like Symantec or Acronis to resize those partitions.

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thanks, I will go try symantec

Question, I thought he did the partition and created a second drive using some app in my xp operating system. Isn't there something on the os that will do it?

Hi,

You can only change the drive in os if you are using the drive as a 'dynamic drive' - which is highly unlikely.

best bet is whats been mentioned use acronis or partitionmagic

Windows XP won't natively allow you to resize partitions without deleting and re-creating them and this involves data loss.

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Thank you for all the input everyone. I didn't want to have to buy something but I don't want to lose data or screw up my pc either. I saw some freeware on zdnet and pcworld and I went to the symantec site. Theirs is pricey but seems to be what I need but I would rather use a free app if it really was useful since I would only be using it once. I don't even know how the two drives work so I wish it hadn''t been done at all.

I'll go look at acronis.

Question: if I wanted to keep the two drives, would i drag and drop apps or audio files from one drive to the other?

Just move all your pic & songs to D dreive from C drive. It will free up a lot of space in C drive. You may not have to resize your HD.

Kwoo, if all your stuff is in MY DOCUMENTS folder move the entire folder to D:
Right click on My Documents in the Start menu,clk Properties,clk the Target tab,and choose Move. Point it to D:
If your stuff is all in different folders follow Garys advice and drag them from C to the D drive

TC

And if you do decide to use an appropriate util to merge the two partitions into one... first backup all critical data etc - off the system (CDR/RW). Similarly if you merely resize one partition in favour of the other backup data first.

If transferring "stuff" from one partition to the other: use the copy mode (or drag 'n drop if you're happy with it) and then verify the data is OK in its new home. Presuming it is then you can safely(?) delete it from its orginal site.

Doing a straight cut and past (or drag 'n drop) "could" result in loss of data - if something decides to go awry (wrong) during the cut 'n paste/drag ' drop... Takes a litle longer but safer than sorrier? (I have had the odd occasion when I've lost a file etc. during a cut 'n paste/drag 'n drop operation; albeit only once or twice, but then again...