Open Computer Management, Disk Management and look at a visual of your hard drive. You might have one of those crazy partitioned drives with a 60gb C drive with all your files and programs and an almost empty huge D drive (partition) that was supposed to be for your Data. If you find that, examine the D partition to see if you need to save any files. Save any personal files you find to external media--cd, dvd, thumb drive, external hard drive. Then delete the D partition in Disk Management and extend the C partition to include the space that was the D partition. It should not destroy any date on the C partition, but be sure to back up C to external media just in case. You will then have your 160 gb drive back.
DELL-Chris M
Community Manager
•
56.9K Posts
0
August 8th, 2011 09:00
Please repost your message on this Board.
Mary G
4 Operator
•
20.1K Posts
0
August 8th, 2011 10:00
Open Computer Management, Disk Management and look at a visual of your hard drive. You might have one of those crazy partitioned drives with a 60gb C drive with all your files and programs and an almost empty huge D drive (partition) that was supposed to be for your Data. If you find that, examine the D partition to see if you need to save any files. Save any personal files you find to external media--cd, dvd, thumb drive, external hard drive. Then delete the D partition in Disk Management and extend the C partition to include the space that was the D partition. It should not destroy any date on the C partition, but be sure to back up C to external media just in case. You will then have your 160 gb drive back.