C and D together?

[jjhirsch]

Hi guys, I was wondering, I am running a 2001 Sony VAIO and it has a Pentium 3. Would it be Ok and beneficial to combine my C and D together instead of 2? I am currently down to 11% on C and 99% on D...I would just like 1 big one instead of 2...Any help would be great.....

[JoeMSFN]

Probably depends on if you have a "hidden" 3rd partition I believe it's called a management/diagnostic/restore partition or if your "D drive" is used for that. I recently dealt with a VAIO laptop with this. My client didn't want to wait for Sony's help so I "forced cloned" (continue with errors) his failing HD to a new one, then used partition magic to merge the C and D partitions. Not sure if the diag (or whatever it is) partition still worked, but my client didn't care since windows and his software seemed to work just fine.

Another option would be to use a partition resizing utility and just make enough on the "D drive" for a virtual memory swap file.

Also you might want to ask a more knowledgeable VAIO specific group:.

VAIO Village

[jjhirsch]

Thanks Joe, so I am assuming there is no easy way to do it..I will try that VAIO Village as well..!!

[prathapml]

Its easy enough, just use something like PartitionMagic to merge both partitions.

But JoeMSFN was telling you about the potential pit-falls of doing that. Moreover, having multiple partitions used for different purposes will increase overall speed of the system (besides making you less vulnerable to an all-out virus wipe-out).

[Astalavista]

i also hv a sony vaio z series.

if u reinstall from the CD pack sony gave u it automatically configures it

to one partition.

[jjhirsch]

i also hv a sony vaio z series.

if u reinstall from the CD pack sony gave u it automatically configures it

to one partition.

I will give this a shot.....But if it came on disk like that, how did it get seperated??