Reformat a laptop with 3 HDs?

August 5th, 2016

Long story short, I have a C:, D:, and F: on my laptop (Spit D into 2, D and F, a long time ago for an experiment basically). Well I want to wipe everything off my laptop with Vista, and put Windows 7 on it. I have my Windows 7 Build 7264 disc from the summer I went to over-write my Vista, but it only allowed me to install of D or F, ended up choosing F. So now I am down to my C: (2/35 gigs remaining), D: (all 50 free), and F: (6.3/15.8 free). Is there any way to put the 3 HDs back to 1 and format the single C: (or whatever its called then?) Basically that was my question so does anyone know?
Also this will take off the option when I start up my comp to choose Win 7 or Vista right?
Answer #1
Do you have 3 different hard drives or one hard drive with 3 partitions?
If you have 3 different hard drives then, it’s not possible (you can use raid if they are identical, but it will only give you the storage of one).
If it’s the latter then there are a lot of software applications that can manage partitions.
Answer #2
You are saying partitions C,D and F be merged to one? I believe you can do that with Acronis Disk director to merge partition but F will be merged with D and then you may be able to merged the combined drive with C ( haven’t tried the last part so can’t say). However then you won’t have boot to Win7
Alternatively,
You can copy all your essential files/data to D and format C and install Win 7 on C and delete the win 7 folder in F or format it after new install win7 on C drive
Answer #3
sure, during the windows installation (where you have to pick the drive) hit the “Drive Options (advanced)” and after that just delete those 3 partitions so you’ll get 1 big piece of unallocated disk space, after that just select that as the partition on which you want to install windows.
*remember that you will lose all data
Answer #4

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sure, during the windows installation (where you have to pick the drive) hit the “Drive Options (advanced)” and after that just delete those 3 partitions so you’ll get 1 big piece of unallocated disk space, after that just select that as the partition on which you want to install windows.
*remember that you will lose all data
Yea did that. Thought originally there were 2 but can’t remember anymore, been way to long. I did it, used a program for it “Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 4.1.1” but now my computer wont even get off a black screen after the Acer logo….

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