OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

[Stephen]

I have built several including a few with 3 drives in raid 5. they do
exist, just not common unless you get into some of the more desktop
replacement systems. most mainstream Tier 1/2 vendors just use one to
save space/cost/complexity

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> Lisa Kachold wrote:
>>
>> Gee,
>>
>> Anyone know an easy tool or procedure to make a standard Laptop C and D
>> drive no longer mirrored instead 2 usable drives?
>>
>> I heard a rumor that you can boot into say Knoppix and use gpartd?
>>
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> That doesn't sound right. Are you sure that the drive D is a mirror, and not
> a recovery partition? Mirroring to a separate partition on the same drive
> would seem to me to be pointless, and I've never heard of a Laptop with 2
> HDDs.
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