a picture tells a thousand words ,what happened

I dont know what I did ,but I need more space on one disk that the other
as per screen shots of my computer

please check out these phot screen shots of my computer and let me know how I can get all or some of that free space to the disk that needs it
http://i45.tinypic.com/f5atmf.jpg

http://i46.tinypic.com/23jmhwg.jpg

 

You have three partitions (C:, D:, F: ) on your disk. Is there a reason for these three partitions?

If not, I would just combine them into one (C: )

1. back up the data from the D: and F: drive (if you need those data)
2. delete the D: and F: partitions
3. extend the C: partition to the end of the disk

P.S. I hate it when disk drives (D turn into smilies !

 

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Gee thanks , I f I can do this will this give me all the space from drive D [OS] onto one disk C Local I have windows Vista Home basic , A Dell inpiron 531 desk top PC and IE7 this whats left on the D OS disk

http://i50.tinypic.com/2v9oy89.jpg

 

thank you , If you could walk me through this , I have not ever tried to extend or delete a partition , when I tried I made that small partition with 555 MB just sitting there ,how ever ifyou could get me through this and I then will have all the free space I will ever need for now that would be great <snip>

 

Umm no pwillener, they have four partitions. Why they created that many, who knows. I have a 500gb in my son's desktop, and never even fathomed doing a partition for stuff, since him and I discussed it, and we decided that there was no need, since everything he keep is kept up in the cloud.

The only way that the OP is going to fix this, is do a complete swipe of the drive, merge all of the partitions and be done with it.

 

Yes, actually there are four partitions, but I would just ignore the first (hidden) 47MB partition.

 

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I really do not know how to work with the partions, and as far as back up any of things that I do not need I dont have anythign ,so Im not worried about that, what I am worried about is how do I change my partions in the partion managment , can you help me with this by walking me through it ?
thank you so much Rhondas

 

Looking at your screenshots I don't think you need to mess about changing your partitions at all. The situation is that the few files Windows needs in order to start up are located on your 10GB C drive, and all the rest of your Windows installation is on the D drive, where there is plenty of free space.

The question is what else is on that C drive that doesn't need to be there. It may help for starters if you could show us a pic of your C drive in My Computer in detail list view, like this, but yours will be different of course -

 

To me it looks like the partitions are used completely differently compared to what the default (Dell?) original was likely to have been. EISA partition = Dell diags, 10GB partition = Recovery data partition, 222GB = the original C:. Presumably, the current mess was caused by an install from a standard Windows DVD.

If it were mine, I'd backup any vital data away from the machine, insert the standard Windows DVD and run Setup - removing all current partitions and creating 1 new one of 238-240GB to install everything to.

The only real alternative I see is if the Dell discs were available to run a factory Restore from, that might put things back as they were when it left the factory.

 

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i d have dell disks , and one windows vista install came with it I tried to use the vista and I got a status error of XC000000F so it wont let me go any further until I fix this but I dont have a clue thanks if you know please do help

 

Did you have this problem before? Could call Dell and ask for a new set of restore discs. Also, I have found that swapping the 40-pin IDE cables from the DVD or CD burner to a 80-pin, if it is not a SATA drive, works.