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

[Lisa Kachold]

Thanks Walter!

It was a Windows DELL C and D drive and I found so much garbage on the
computer and registry errors, as well as possible virus sig's that I just
rebuilt the whole shebang after backing up the basic stuff.  It was 90%
faster after.

There was a shop rumor that I could make more disk space with a few commands
after booting the gpartd, so I imagine the former person just broke the
mirror on ONE drive, not for a dual drive DELL.

Thanks everyone for your OT help!

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM, walter tocalini <curonet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> >>>
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