Desire for New Harddrive

[bigdirtyfoot]

I have an ASUS P3V4X JumperFree PC-133 Motherboard and I'm interested in upgrading to a new better harddrive but I really have no clue how to do it or where to start. Can you guys guide me through this? Right now I have two drives, a C and a D. The C drive is 6 gigs, and the D is 13. So alltogether I have less than 20! I simply need more. What I want to do is get rid of the C (but keep all my files and folders and settings and such) and upgrade to a bigger harddrive. I have a boss who's willing to let me use one of her servers to hold my files. Other than that, I don't know where to begin, or what to look for. Something economical would be nice though. Anyways, thank you!

[anniehoang]

Your drive is partitioned currently. Your Harddrive is 20Gigs and it's been split into 5 and 13. I personally like to keep my primary drive (C:\) at 5 Gigs that's a nice size to run everything and ensure stability. You need a C:\. However if you intend to get a new HD altogether, I would personally suggest leaving C:\ as is.
There are many HardDrives for sale.

If you're looking for a good price, avoid SATA models. These are new so obviously expensive however the normal ATA drives fine.
You can get for example a Maxtor 7200RPM 30 Gig $75 Canadian. A little less in American currency. That would give you 50 Gigs in total. A little less since drives never give you the total amount.

So you could have a computer that looks like this:
C:\ = 5GB D:\ = 13GB E:\ 28GB(roughly) F:\ = CD-ROM
I think there's a way to combine the D partition and the new Hardrive but I don't know that for sure.

That's the way I'd go probably. However you could if you like, format and delete the old partion so you'd combine C and D together looking like this:

C:\ = 18GB D:\ = 28GB E:\ CD-ROM

The first way doesn't require you to do anything except plug in the new Harddrive while the second option will require you to format I think. In which case you'll need to use FDISK to delete the second partition, and combine it back into C:\

I'm not that great in explaining it lol, but I know how to do it. Hopefully someone can explain it better for you, or say how you can combine 2 seperate drives. Anyway I hope this helps you a bit.

-Annie