Can C: and D: drives be merged?

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Ninette

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I'm a silver surfer who's taken over her husband's old computer. His 20 gb *C:drive* is practically full (which is causing endless problems) - but the adjoining 20 gb *D:drive* only contains personal data which I could wipe off. If the two drives could be merged, or C: could be extended into D:, it would be a boon. As many as another 6 drives follow on his 300gb h.d.!
I'm not a competent computer user, but if there was an easy way to tackle this (with some kind of utility?) I'd really have a go, rather than having XP reinstalled from scratch.
Would some good soul give me a clue what to do?
 
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stillblue

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Hello dear lady, by definition as a silver surfer you are a dear lady, just in case, to burn an iso image onto a cd is not the same as copy. Think of an iso image as a single box full of parts. By putting all those parts into one box it's very easy to carry them around but just opening it doesn't put them together into something usable. Burning an iso image to a cd or dvd is really very simple, the burner, IMGburn by the previous recommendation, will open the box, read the instructions and put it together into a complete program for you.

Starting your computer from that cd means to press a key at the very beginning of startup, right after you hit the power button, that allows you to select what the computer should start from. Typically you press either the f12 or f9 key above your numbers. select the dvd drive.

Be warned, Microsoft is ending support for XP very soon and since you say you are a surfer your computer will be much more susceptible to online virus attacks. You may want to consider buying a copy of windows7 or 8 and installing that now rather than later since you want to clean up your system but they might be a little heavy for your system to handle. If they are you could download a copy of Lubuntu which is free and you can try it out before installing by "burning" it to a DVD and starting the computer from it. If everything works and you like it the install will be a piece of cake. Lubuntu is a lightweight version of Ubuntu which should easily run on your computer, has no known viruses that attack it and will be very similar to what you are used to with XP although better organized if you ask me. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu
 
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I'm grateful, folks, for so much help and kindness. I suddenly don't feel so alone any longer. I'm going to follow Phillip Corcoran's advice first, and keep stillblue's suggestion in mind as something to be done in the course of next year. Lubuntu sounds like a great solution, and I'm going to start reading up on it. If it's true I'm a dear lady, I'll try hard to become a smart one too.. :) I wish I could offer you both a couple of my super duper mince pies as a way of thanks!
 
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You're killing me. I'm in the middle of the DR Congo and I loooove mince meat pies, hot, with vanilla ice cream. The only parts of that I can't get where I am is the mince meat and the vanilla ice cream and I don't have an oven.
 
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Chicano

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You don't need to use a Partition manager in Live Cd... an installed partition manager can do it during a computer reboot which is the same as from a Live CD and you don't have to bother downloading the ISO and burning it. Just use the program to delete the D partition... that leaves an unallocated space, next with the mouse extend C to take up the unallocated space and restart the computer so it gets done...
 
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Thank you, Chicano. I've just seen your answer after having followed the instructions of the previous posters. I've been able to burn the ISO and use the CD of MiniTool Partition Wizard to do the deed for me - I've ended up with another 15 gb added to my C: drive where XP is now.. oh joy! snug comfortable and responsive! In my case I was happier using the partition manager on CD because XP was obviously choking on C: for lack of space and installing another program would 've been problematic. But your suggestion is worth remembering for the future.



 
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