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My first encounter with a Partition.

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  • Hewlett Packard
  • Memory
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October 9, 2014 11:34:20 PM

I’ve been reading everything I could find, all day and am still stumped.
A two (or maybe more) part question.

I picked up a rarely used, shelved HP with XP and an 80GB HDD, partitioned into “C” & “D”.

The intent is to upgrade and give it to a mostly confined old timer.
I added RAM and installed W7.
Trouble is, “D” is 10GB and there is another 10GB of unallocated space so the free space is filling up. The full 80GB it would be fine for him so, I’d like to just do away with the recovery on D and combine all the space into C.

Since the recovery on D is factory HP/XP, is there a way to accomplish my goal (a near 80GB “C” drive) within W7?

My other option is to replace the HDD with a larger one.
If I do that, the 40GB becomes an external HDD; same question…how do I wipe it completely clean?

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October 9, 2014 11:49:14 PM

you can format again delete the partiton. create the 80gb you want. give some roses for the fist encounter. and its done.

if you want some blazzing fast old notebook get an SSD 128gb for 73us.
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October 10, 2014 9:11:10 AM

Amdlova said:
you can format again delete the partiton. create the 80gb you want.


Is that an answer to the first or second question?
Is what you say doable, as is, with the HDD still intact and W7 running or were you referring to the HDD removed?


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