[geeks] Quick NTFS Partition Q...

[Phil Stracchino]

On 07/25/10 18:06, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
>> Hey gang,
>>
>> My dad has a Sony Vaio PC running XP that somehow came with two NTFS
>> partitions. A 20G C: and a 100G D: drive. Of course, C: is full, D: is
>> "nearly" empty but has some stuff on it.
>>
>> Ideally I want to merge these partitions magically/seemlessly so it
>> looks like 1 big disk with no data loss. Is this something that gpartd
>> or qpartd can do these days? Or am I stuck wiping the D drive and then
>> growing the C drive with the before-mentioned tools?
>>
> 
> I do not think you need to do either.  You can mount a separate volume
> under an empty folder name, and it will all appear as one unified path.
> 
> e.g. mount D:/ under C:\dfiles and C will look like the only disk on the
> system.
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889

But that won't solve the problem of the C: partition being full.  Nor
(since C: is full) will it allow moving the files off of D: onto C:
preparatory to blowing away D: and growing C:.


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