Hi. My name is Tom.

Hi. My name is Tom. I'm hoping there is someone out there that can help me. I built my PC about a year ago and made a "Fatal Error". I'm running Windows XP Home. I installed a 250GB HD which, being from the old school, I thought it would take forever to defrag so I partitioned it. My mistake was thinking I would only load the "OS" on "C" Drive and nothing else, so I allotted only 10GBs to "C" and 30GBs to D-E-F-G-and H drives for all Games and Programs.
Now a year later I have only 800MBs free on "C" and I'm worried that It may be affecting page swapping for gaming. I have a ton of games, programs and family pics on all the other partitions and will hate to FOMAT the HD.
I need to know if I could simply in "MY COMPUTER" DRAG DRIVE "D" ONTO DRIVE "C" THERE BY
MAKING "C" 40GBs. Will the OS still work??? And will I gain the added free space from "D" drive??? Would I have to RENAME the other drives to keep order??? Would the OS automaticly rename the DVD and CDROM drives???
I would apprecciate any help or warnings you might have.

Thankyou
Tom

 

Welcome to MajorGeeks
It might be possible, and it wont affect any other partitons, and yes, you will gain the added space. I use Norton PartitonMagic (unfortunately) and it works great. But I dont have much xp in partitoning, so Ill let someone else handle it.

 

Thanks Bladesofhalo for the info. I'm still a little worried to screw something up so I'm going to wait for more acknowledgement and confidence before I do anything drastic.
Thanks again.
Tom

 

I also, know its possible, but not my deparrtment, It's late, someone will be with you soon...
Welcome to Majorgeeks

 

Thanks for caring Jazagod. My fingers are crossed....