Odd Vista Hard drive

For some reason my computer says it has 2 hard drives, one named Vista home Premium, the other i named GamesHard drive. I checked inside my new computer and have found only one hardrive, the vista hardrive has only 29.2 gb and counts as c:, the game harddrive has 203gb and counts as F:, anyone know why this is doing this?

im having some issues with games that require c:\ (battlefield 2142 for one) and get errors if installed on f:, is there anyway to allocate more memory to the c: or switch them around since its using the same harddrive for both?

 

I put this in software because it seems like software is the issue

 

Your hard drive is partitioned and has the operating system (Vista) on one partition, and games on the other. I have read that it is wiser to keep the OS on a separate partition for security reasons. I am only adept at installing a slave drive on a system, I use it for page file (Virtual Memory), Temporary Internet Files, and Temp files. I use a flash drive (portable apps.) or an external Hard Drive for programs I am trying or don't plan on using on a regular basis. Acronis makes what I have heard is a good partition manager called disk director, for partitioning and for dual booting (using two operating systems) on the same machine. Perhaps more ram would help, or increasing Virtual Memory to a static amount (1.5 to 3 times amount of RAM). I would put the games on a separate drive (slave) as two heads are better than one, that and what little experience I have with partitioning is due to Linux installations.

 

i mean some of my games are having issues if ran on a different drive then c:, for example when i installed the game battlefield 2142 on f: it kept telling me to insert disc when the disc was already in, but on c: it has no problems. i was just wondering how to increase the C: size from the F:, or switch the drive numbers around if it wont effect the OS

 

The following links should show you how to change the sizes of your partions with Vista/
http://vistarewired.com/2007/02/16/how-to-resize-a-partition-in-windows-vista/

If this does not work, you may need to boot from the Vista DVD and use the diskpart utility to resize the partions. I will give you a guide if i can find one, but this is the bare nuts and bolts: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...dde5-4eac-a1f1-38eff6e3e5091033.mspx?mfr=true

In theory, this should not affect the O/S, but I would always recommend backing up your important files just incase, since any sort of partion resizing with the systme partion may be slightly dangerous. Hope these links help.

 

hmm i getting an error message when i open up disk manager,

Cannot Start Virtual Disk Service(VDS),
VDS supports windows 2003, IA64 xp or later.
Use terminal service for non-vds machine.

Odd, im gonna try restarting

 

ok i got it thanks