2nd Hard drive problem

[kmmon1]

I have on old dell 486 with a 540mb hd. I upgrade the processor and ram and I put a 1.56gb hardrive in also. I dont have any of the original disks so I am out of luck. I added the 2nd hd with some help from dell support. But now it shows 2 new drives, d and E. They both have the same info on it. I want the E drive to disapear, And also when I try to defrag the drive D it sayd 94% Fragmented and after the frag it says the same thing. I am just trying to make the computer an internet computer with very minimal programs, what do I do to straigthen out this drive problem???

[FrozenLiquidity]

It may be possible that the second hard drive you put in had two partitions on it, that would certianly explain why you have the new drive letters D: and E:

As for your defragmentation problem, do you even have stuff installed on the D: drive?, if not, then there is really no point to defragmenting it, you could try to format the D: drive, but for the most part, I belive this computer already fits the specifications for the job you want it to do.

If you wan't to make D: and E: all one drive, then you will have to repartition them , this will erase all data on them though. I belive you can also do this with a program called PartitionMagic, but I don't know where you could find it. I think it is made by a company called Que or something.

Just trying to help.

FrozenLiquidity

[Rat]

As far as the partitions go, what OS do you have? The older Win95 does not support partitions over 1 gig, so it splits the hard drive up.

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[Sterling_Aug]

Rat: Win95 and WinNT use the FAT16 format for the partition info which allows a 2 gig partition, not 1 gig.

Win98 and Win2K supports FAT32 which has a 16 Exabyte partition size (very large number).

[Rat]

oops.... my bad.. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

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