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

[Eric Shubert]

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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>> -Eric 'shubes'
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