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

[Stephen]

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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