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Slave drive - and how can I use it?
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My computer was upgraded to a 40gb hard drive a year or so ago. I am running Windows XP. When I go to My computer I seem to have a C drive and a D drive - each drive being 20gb(ish). The D drive seems to have more memory accounted for - and all the documents etc are filed there. Can I use the 20gb that is sitting on the C drive - which seems to be redundant at present, and if so how?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Why do you need to combine the partitions at all? When you want to save or install stuff, just save it onto your C drive...?
It does seem a little odd - Windows is normally installed to the C drive, and the best reason for partitioning it like this is to ease in the wiping and re-intalling of the operating system. If Windows isn't installed on your C drive, who installed it and why did they do it in such a strange way?
It does seem a little odd - Windows is normally installed to the C drive, and the best reason for partitioning it like this is to ease in the wiping and re-intalling of the operating system. If Windows isn't installed on your C drive, who installed it and why did they do it in such a strange way?
having a drive partitioned can be handy.
for example, install all OS stuff (windows) and software on one partition, and have the other for your data.. all your personal files, music, etc.
if anything goes wrong, just erase the partition with the programs on it and re-install everything. but you still have all your data. its a lot easier than having to try and backup all your data first, if your computer is in a state to let you at that point (say if it got some terrible virus or some other catastrophic failure)..
for example, install all OS stuff (windows) and software on one partition, and have the other for your data.. all your personal files, music, etc.
if anything goes wrong, just erase the partition with the programs on it and re-install everything. but you still have all your data. its a lot easier than having to try and backup all your data first, if your computer is in a state to let you at that point (say if it got some terrible virus or some other catastrophic failure)..