LEE GREEN wrote:
> I've got a 2.5 harddrive that has a C: and D: partition, I want to get
> rid of the D: drive and recover the space to the C: drive but no matter
> what I try it doesn't happen.
> I have tried move, extend, merge, etc what's the trick? I don't
> remember it being this hard.
> I also have an old recovery partition that I want to get rid of and
> recover the space to C:
Over 2TB has to be partitioned as GPT, not MBR. MBR only supports a
drive of 2TB max.
Older systems don't support GPT, *but* if your partition software knows
GPT, then it can chop up the disk into under-2TB partitions which the
non-GPT-capable system can then see. (I've done this with 3TB drives so
an old quad core could see them.)
Probably the partition software is looking at BIOS support and saying
nope, no can do. And if you do manage to merge it, you may lose access
to the entire disk, at least on this system (it should still be readable
on a newer BIOS with GPT support).
So I would most strongly recommend that you leave well enough alone, and
just use the secondary partitions as Another Big Folder.
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BTW this is why I just bought a 2TB data drive even tho I have a stack
of 3TB drives -- the 2TB will be readable on anything from a late P4 on
up, while the 3TB have to be chopped up into smaller partitions before
they can be read on the older systems.
I no longer mount drives internally; now I use iStarUSA hotswap bays. SO
much easier, especially since multiboot no longer works right with
Windows (and is risky now that it rewrites the boot sector when you
change OSs, rather than just pointing at a different one), and was
always risky if you cross species lines and multiboot Windows and linux.
Now I just swap the boot drive, and every OS uses the same data drive
(formatted NTFS).
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