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

[walter tocalini]

Just go to windows control panel -----> administrative tools ---->computer
management ----->disk management----> and disble the mirror and your second
drive will be clean for whatever you like to do---no data lost on the
primary drive
o whatever version of windows this machine have- your place to work is disk
management

command line tool id call Diskpart.

now be sure that you have a mirror because when you do that it is only on
drive C, or one drive with 2 partition , then will be C and D, and if you
have that mirror with a second drive, then you have C and D
I understand that you're aware of that, but again, are you sure that has two
drives,

with gparted, it have a live cd that is able to work with drive mirror and
change that, but it is better to do it within windows app.

unless that whatever that computer have it is not important, you can try it,
but is faster and simpler from disk management,
now i got a question which laptop brand provide the ability of use 2 drives,
unless that you use docking stations I never see one,

well good luck

Walter Tocalini

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Desktop replacements aren't known for battery life.. unless you count
> the shortest possible... SLI graphics raided HDD and sometimes Desktop
> CPU's.... you get the idea.
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> > I should think that'd put a real strain on the battery. Unless of course
> > they're SSDs. :)
> >
> > Stephen wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> -Eric 'shubes'
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