Disk partitions

[Skoldn]

Hi everyone!

 

I'm new here so yeah, hello fellas =)

 

I built my first PC a couple days ago (yay \o/ ) and it's working nicely, I managed to get everything working thanks to Linus' videos! 

I have a couple (small but they annoy me!) issues with my drives. I installed a SSD as a boot drive, and I dumped in 2 1To HDD's that were laying around and my problem is my disks are scattered like hell:

Disks C:\ and D:\ are both my one and only SSD (disk 0) split in two, F:\ is HDD#1 (disk 2), and G:\ and H:\ are HDD#2 (disk 1).

 

As a note, Windows was first installed on HDD#2 and it made the partition on its own, and when cloning the data to my SSD it partitionned it (I suppose).

 

I HATE HAVING 5 FRIGGIN' DRIVES! Can someone help me out? Is it possible to merge the disks back together or something? I first wanted to do the NTFS thing when installing them so I wouldn't have to care about having 3 drives but it turned out I wasn't even asked for installing those, they appeared on their own (I sometimes hate it when computers make things easy for me).

 

Have a nice day o/

[nanowatt]

you didn't re-format the hdd's didn't you?

[Lingrah]

delete all the partitions except the ones your os is on.  Then create partitions that are the size of the drive.

[Skoldn]

you didn't re-format the hdd's didn't you?

I might have Is that bad?

 

 

delete all the partitions except the ones your os is on.  Then create partitions that are the size of the drive.

Is my data safe when doing that?

 

I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to computers to be honnest =|

[Lingrah]

I might have Is that bad?

 

 

Is my data safe when doing that?

 

I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to computers to be honnest =|

No...  anything you want/need to keep put it on a usb.  Both of the things we said will remove everything on the drive.  You should format any drive when you put it in a new computer, just back all important stuff up.

[Skoldn]

No...  anything you want/need to keep put it on a usb.  Both of the things we said will remove everything on the drive.  You should format any drive when you put it in a new computer, just back all important stuff up.

Awmg am I going to have reinstall all my programs again? I did it twice already and I was just done with that

[nanowatt]

I might have Is that bad?

 

 

Is my data safe when doing that?

 

I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to computers to be honnest =|

Those small partitions are system reserved and the windows creates them to store essential settings they are usually hidden when a windows is on the disk.When they are used as normal hdd's and not boot drive they will appear.Re-format both hdd's and you will be fine and by re-format i mean deleting all the small space volumes from disk manager formating the hdd and creating new volumes

[nanowatt]

Awmg am I going to have reinstall all my programs again? I did it twice already and I was just done with that

If you have programs on hdd's yes.The ssd will be just fine

[Lingrah]

Awmg am I going to have reinstall all my programs again? I did it twice already and I was just done with that

Yeah... You should always format a drive when going into a new computer  Although not necessary, this lets the drive know the computer.  This leads to less issues in the future.  As well as any crapware and viruses on the old HDD will be carried over if you don't format.  I know i hate that process of installing everything onto a new drive, that is why I won't buy an SSD.

[Skoldn]

Will that remove the E: disk tho as it is a partition from my SSD?

 

Edit: when formatting G: (which is supposed to be empty) it still says 15 GB are used on it...?

[Skoldn]

We're almost there! Thanks alot for your help but I'm gonna take advantage of your generosity to steal some of your time again: can I get rid of E: ?

[Skoldn]

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