Managing Partitions.

2010-02-01 08:38:36

#1

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6730

simple question for you all:

im completely wiping my main drive to install windows 7. just bought a 1 terabyte external e-Sata drive for all my music/films/games, so i can finally wipe my internal main-HDD without fear of losing 100,000 songs blah-blah-blah. in short: my current internal is in 3 partitions that i made years ago for reasons i cant even remember, and i don't want or need them there anymore. how do i restore the current C/ drive so it's just one big partition? im tired of having 3 different sub-drives for one hard-disk.

any program or utility that i can use to do this? karma for the best recommendation. don't care if it involves formatting and wiping my data-- i have the eSata drive as the backup now. just want to restore this internal western digital drive to factory defaults for windows 7 installation. keeping it as clean as possible from now on. like a SSD only... 3 years old. you know. bling bling. kerching.

ta.

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2010-02-01 08:43:10

#2

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6712|The Twilight Zone

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2010-02-01 08:45:03

#3

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6998|Toronto | Canada

Pretty sure you can do it when you restart with the Windows 7 CD in. Thats what I did.

2010-02-01 08:46:31

#4

androoz: Banned; +137|5472|United States

Winston_Churchill wrote:
Pretty sure you can do it when you restart with the Windows 7 CD in. Thats what I did.

This.

2010-02-01 08:47:08

#5

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6712|The Twilight Zone

Winston_Churchill wrote:
Pretty sure you can do it when you restart with the Windows 7 CD in. Thats what I did.

I know you can reformat but merging partitions there? dunno, I don't remember seeing that option when I was installing

2010-02-01 08:47:09

#6

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6730

p.s. i wont have a windows 7 disc because i'm getting it from my friend boris in russian webspace

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2010-02-01 08:47:45

#7

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6759|so randum

Uzique wrote:
simple question for you all:

im completely wiping my main drive to install windows 7. just bought a 1 terabyte external e-Sata drive for all my music/films/games, so i can finally wipe my internal main-HDD without fear of losing 100,000 songs blah-blah-blah. in short: my current internal is in 3 partitions that i made years ago for reasons i cant even remember, and i don't want or need them there anymore. how do i restore the current C/ drive so it's just one big partition? im tired of having 3 different sub-drives for one hard-disk.

any program or utility that i can use to do this? karma for the best recommendation. don't care if it involves formatting and wiping my data-- i have the eSata drive as the backup now. just want to restore this internal western digital drive to factory defaults for windows 7 installation. keeping it as clean as possible from now on. like a SSD only... 3 years old. you know. bling bling. kerching.

ta.

last time i wiped for a clean XP i swear the disc gave me the option to delete partions to make one big happy drive. so i presume w7 does the same thing

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2010-02-01 08:50:55

#8

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6886|UK

Uzique wrote:
p.s. i wont have a windows 7 disc because i'm getting it from my friend boris in russian webspace

Then how do you plan on installing Windows 7 with a blank HDD? If you want to repartition the disk then you have to delete the current partitions, so the HDD is unpartitioned, and then format a new single partition.

In doing that you will no longer be able to to boot to an OS in order to install another OS.

You need a disc to boot from.

2010-02-01 08:53:59

#9

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|7001|London

Can't you merge them in the windows disk management? (right click computer - manage - disk management) I know you can split/resize them there, not sure about merging though.

and i don't know what you mean about not having a disc, surely you're going to burn the image onto a disc?

2010-02-01 08:54:14

#10

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6712|The Twilight Zone

liquidat0r wrote:
Uzique wrote:
p.s. i wont have a windows 7 disc because i'm getting it from my friend boris in russian webspace
Then how do you plan on installing Windows 7 with a blank HDD? If you want to repartition the disk then you have to delete the current partitions, so the HDD is unpartitioned, and then format a new single partition.

In doing that you will no longer be able to to boot to an OS in order to install another OS.

You need a disc to boot from.

I use USB stick to install Win7

2010-02-01 09:05:06

#11

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6998|Toronto | Canada

Doesnt that still give you HDD management options?

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2010-02-01 09:29:07

#12

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6730

liquidat0r wrote:
Uzique wrote:
p.s. i wont have a windows 7 disc because i'm getting it from my friend boris in russian webspace
Then how do you plan on installing Windows 7 with a blank HDD? If you want to repartition the disk then you have to delete the current partitions, so the HDD is unpartitioned, and then format a new single partition.

In doing that you will no longer be able to to boot to an OS in order to install another OS.

You need a disc to boot from.

yeah, obviously... but pirated copies of windows 7 dont come with all the extra microsoft utilities. just an installer and a pirate-coded launcher.

ta for replies all.

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2010-02-01 10:07:35

#13

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|7001|London

Uzique wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:
Uzique wrote:
p.s. i wont have a windows 7 disc because i'm getting it from my friend boris in russian webspace
Then how do you plan on installing Windows 7 with a blank HDD? If you want to repartition the disk then you have to delete the current partitions, so the HDD is unpartitioned, and then format a new single partition.

In doing that you will no longer be able to to boot to an OS in order to install another OS.

You need a disc to boot from.
yeah, obviously... but pirated copies of windows 7 dont come with all the extra microsoft utilities. just an installer and a pirate-coded launcher.

ta for replies all.

yeah they do

2010-02-01 11:13:29

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jay_courage: Alive in a sea of mediocre; +131|6218|Carnoustie

Get the op, burn to cd, set cd to boot, everything else is straight forward, if you get stuck pm and I'll help as best possible, I have a handy utility you might find interesting

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