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Removing the D Patition form Some Compaq Machines
For Compaq PC users who have a "D" partition on their hard drive,
there is now a service pack SP22827 which will eliminate the partition. The following is from the web site; ============== This application creates a bootable diskette, which can be used to delete the D: Partition installed on certain Compaq Presario computers. This application may be used on Compaq Presario computers with partitioned hard disk drives to remove the D: Partition and expand the C: Drive to include all the space that was included in the D: Partition. Please refer to the main text to insure that your model is listed. |
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I looked at deleting the D partition when I run out of room on my C drive
but decided the best option was to fit a larger HDD. I fitted a 40meg HDD to an old 12xl212 P3 650 added a bit of ram and now it runs XP faultlessly, better unit than what it was new Alan "HH" wrote in message ... Note: If the D partition is deleted, the Recovery CD will no longer restore the PC. Think before you do it. HH "Ed Stimach" wrote in message ... For Compaq PC users who have a "D" partition on their hard drive, there is now a service pack SP22827 which will eliminate the partition. The following is from the web site; ============== This application creates a bootable diskette, which can be used to delete the D: Partition installed on certain Compaq Presario computers. This application may be used on Compaq Presario computers with partitioned hard disk drives to remove the D: Partition and expand the C: Drive to include all the space that was included in the D: Partition. Please refer to the main text to insure that your model is listed. |
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"HH" wrote in message ... Note: If the D partition is deleted, the Recovery CD will no longer restore the PC. Think before you do it. HH If you DO want to save the info on the D partition, you MAY want to consider - getting a new,bigger hard drive and THEN running a program which MAY come with it to copy your old data to your new drive. OR purchase a program, such as Norton Ghost (~$25). You'll end up with a bigger drive AND still have your old data. Simply then make the new drive the master (- drive C) and then reboot - all your info is still there. All of C and all of D. bobb "Ed Stimach" wrote in message ... For Compaq PC users who have a "D" partition on their hard drive, there is now a service pack SP22827 which will eliminate the partition. The following is from the web site; ============== This application creates a bootable diskette, which can be used to delete the D: Partition installed on certain Compaq Presario computers. This application may be used on Compaq Presario computers with partitioned hard disk drives to remove the D: Partition and expand the C: Drive to include all the space that was included in the D: Partition. Please refer to the main text to insure that your model is listed. |
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Prior to doing that you may want to spend $10 to get the RestoreCD for your
model PC (check it at www.compaq.com/support . Then you don't need the D partition info to do a restore. "Ed Stimach" wrote in message ... For Compaq PC users who have a "D" partition on their hard drive, there is now a service pack SP22827 which will eliminate the partition. The following is from the web site; ============== This application creates a bootable diskette, which can be used to delete the D: Partition installed on certain Compaq Presario computers. This application may be used on Compaq Presario computers with partitioned hard disk drives to remove the D: Partition and expand the C: Drive to include all the space that was included in the D: Partition. Please refer to the main text to insure that your model is listed. |
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