system believes that 80 gig drive is full and it is not

[rickyt4574]

system believes that there are two drives in pc. I need to know how to combine C: and D: together. They are on the same piece of hardware. Can not download anymore because system concinced that hard drive is full

 

[smah]

What operating system? Is there data on both partitions?

 

[rvnguy]

Have you not always had a c: & d: ??

Before you embark on any routine to combine I strongly suggest that you back up any data that you do not want to lose.

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[PRPhx]

Partition MAgic will allow you to delete partitions and recover the space. And as rvnguy stated, BACK UP YOUR DRIVES FIRST. DO IT. I've seen problems when resizing/combining partitions. Data loss comes to mind. And if it's the OS that gets trashed, your pc won't boot.


Personally I would do the backup and then wipe out both partitions and build one large on (or 1 small part. for the OS, say around 5-8 gig) and the rest for data.