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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2009, 10:03:24 PM »
For the first drive, you need a bootable cd to remove the first partition and resize the second (system one).
You won't be able to do it with Easeus, I suppose, as you need to do it at boot time and you're resizing the system partition.
Maybe you need a live Linux CD with gparted. I'll try to find you link to it.

For the second drive, you can delete all partitions and use all the empty space to made a new one.
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2009, 10:04:31 PM »
Here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
There are screenshots of it there too.
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #17 on: May 30, 2009, 10:08:54 PM »
Hang on Tech,

I appreciate this but I don't want to mess with the system hard drive, if it aint broke.....

For the HD in the enclosure can't I just resize?

-Scott-
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #18 on: May 30, 2009, 10:34:57 PM »
Quote from: spg SCOTT on May 30, 2009, 10:08:54 PM
For the HD in the enclosure can't I just resize?
It will remain with, at least, two partitions. Is this what you want?

Quote from: spg SCOTT on May 30, 2009, 10:08:54 PM
I appreciate this but I don't want to mess with the system hard drive, if it aint broke.
Which is the operational system there?
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #19 on: May 30, 2009, 11:08:54 PM »
Quote from: spg SCOTT on May 30, 2009, 10:08:54 PM


For the HD in the enclosure can't I just resize?

-Scott-

Hi, I don't see why not.  :)  I've done what you're wanting to do with easus home  edition program.Just delete the old recovery partition, it should become unallocated space then resize the other.  hope this helps
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #20 on: May 30, 2009, 11:11:04 PM »
Quote from: RNfromTN on May 30, 2009, 11:08:54 PM
Just delete the old recovery partition
It will still keep two partitions... is there what he wants?
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #21 on: May 30, 2009, 11:25:19 PM »
Quote from: Tech on May 30, 2009, 11:11:04 PM
Quote from: RNfromTN on May 30, 2009, 11:08:54 PM
Just delete the old recovery partition
It will still keep two partitions... is there what he wants?

Tech, if he uses Easus to delete 1 partition and resizes the other to take the empty space how does this make 2 partitions?
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #22 on: May 30, 2009, 11:48:09 PM »
There is a G: Scott partition at the end of the disk or am I wrong?
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #23 on: May 31, 2009, 12:04:02 AM »
Quote from: Tech on May 30, 2009, 11:48:09 PM
There is a G: Scott partition at the end of the disk or am I wrong?

 :-[  missed that tech.sorry

If I understand what scott wanted originally was 1 (one) partition, then he needs to delete the smaller one and resize  the other.
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #24 on: May 31, 2009, 12:22:50 AM »
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EDIT:Ok so I formatted both partitions and in both there is a hidden folder called 'System Volume Information', Why??
                  It can't be deleted or accessed

                  Any ideas about the BIOS thing or is this not possible?

What I gathered, perhaps wrongly, was that Scott was unable to make a clean deletion on disk 2 so that he would be left with 80GB of unallocated space that he could do what he liked with. Instead he was left with hidden folders (remnant allocations) 'System Volume Information'. This why I suggested using a bootdisk and working in DOS. I recall doing something similar a while ago when I simlpy could not wipe a hard drive clean until I reverted to DOS. In this case the NTFS partitions on disk 2 would be deleted in DOS as non-DOS partitions.

However, I would expect Easeus to clean the disk easily enough - that is if Scott does just want to have with 80GB unallocated on disk 2 and partition / format as he likes.

Disk 1
I didn't see his set up on disk 1 until I saw the screenshot this morning. That HDD looks like the dual boot set up that was once popular and if Scott wanted to try the *: drive as active he might find an OS is still currently available - probably 98SE or XP(FAT32). Some people were unwilling to abandon FAT after being subjected to Windows 2000 which was basically NT4 carried a step further.
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #25 on: May 31, 2009, 01:12:32 AM »
Windows creates a 'System Volume Information' folder in every partition, it is where system restore creates restore points, so as such it is a system folder and by default hidden.
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #26 on: May 31, 2009, 01:21:39 AM »
Of course. Thanks DavidR.
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #27 on: May 31, 2009, 02:34:21 AM »
You're welcome.
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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #28 on: May 31, 2009, 07:46:42 AM »
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Quote from: spg SCOTT on May 30, 2009, 07:41:44 PM


CharleyO,

I think your right, looks to be a bit too far beyond me, I think I'll just use it for backup.
Thanks for the help,

-Scott-


You're welcome, Scott, but I'm sorry it wasn't more incouraging for you.


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Re: Help with an old hard drive
« Reply #29 on: May 31, 2009, 09:16:37 PM »
Scott, after all, what did you do? Do you need further help?
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