Subj : Re: Partition question
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Lee Green
Date : Sun Jul 12 2020 12:33:00

-> LEE GREEN wrote:
-> > I've got a 2.5 harddrive that has a C: and D: partition, I want to get
-> > rid of the D: drive and recover the space to the C: drive but no matter
-> > what I try it doesn't happen.
-> > 
-> > I have tried move, extend, merge, etc  what's the trick? I don't
-> > remember it being this hard.
-> > 
-> > I also have an old recovery partition that I want to get rid of and
-> > recover the space to C:

I guess I should have mentioned it's only 250GB and MBR.
The D: partition is 10GB that I would like to get rid of and return the
unused space to the C: partition.                          
I also want to get rid of an old leftover recovery partition on it.

-> Over 2TB has to be partitioned as GPT, not MBR. MBR only supports a 
-> drive of 2TB max.

-> Older systems don't support GPT, *but* if your partition software knows 
-> GPT, then it can chop up the disk into under-2TB partitions which the 
-> non-GPT-capable system can then see. (I've done this with 3TB drives so 
-> an old quad core could see them.)

-> Probably the partition software is looking at BIOS support and saying 
-> nope, no can do. And if you do manage to merge it, you may lose access 
-> to the entire disk, at least on this system (it should still be readable 
-> on a newer BIOS with GPT support).

-> So I would most strongly recommend that you leave well enough alone, and 
-> just use the secondary partitions as Another Big Folder.

-> ===

-> BTW this is why I just bought a 2TB data drive even tho I have a stack 
-> of 3TB drives -- the 2TB will be readable on anything from a late P4 on 
-> up, while the 3TB have to be chopped up into smaller partitions before 
-> they can be read on the older systems.

-> I no longer mount drives internally; now I use iStarUSA hotswap bays. SO 
-> much easier, especially since multiboot no longer works right with 
-> Windows (and is risky now that it rewrites the boot sector when you 
-> change OSs, rather than just pointing at a different one), and was 
-> always risky if you cross species lines and multiboot Windows and linux. 
-> Now I just swap the boot drive, and every OS uses the same data drive 
-> (formatted NTFS).

Sounds interesting got a URL, I've just been using a USB to 2.5 SATA
interface to mess and boot with this drive.
                                                                  
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