Thanks Walter! It was a Windows DELL C and D drive and I found so much garbage on the computer and registry errors, as well as possible virus sig's that I just rebuilt the whole shebang after backing up the basic stuff. It was 90% faster after. There was a shop rumor that I could make more disk space with a few commands after booting the gpartd, so I imagine the former person just broke the mirror on ONE drive, not for a dual drive DELL. Thanks everyone for your OT help! On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM, walter tocalini wrote: > Just go to windows control panel -----> administrative tools ---->computer > management ----->disk management----> and disble the mirror and your second > drive will be clean for whatever you like to do---no data lost on the > primary drive > o whatever version of windows this machine have- your place to work is disk > management > > command line tool id call Diskpart. > > now be sure that you have a mirror because when you do that it is only on > drive C, or one drive with 2 partition , then will be C and D, and if you > have that mirror with a second drive, then you have C and D > I understand that you're aware of that, but again, are you sure that has > two drives, > > with gparted, it have a live cd that is able to work with drive mirror and > change that, but it is better to do it within windows app. > > unless that whatever that computer have it is not important, you can try > it, but is faster and simpler from disk management, > now i got a question which laptop brand provide the ability of use 2 > drives, unless that you use docking stations I never see one, > > well good luck > > Walter Tocalini > > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Stephen wrote: > >> Desktop replacements aren't known for battery life.. unless you count >> the shortest possible... SLI graphics raided HDD and sometimes Desktop >> CPU's.... you get the idea. >> >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: >> > I should think that'd put a real strain on the battery. Unless of course >> > they're SSDs. :) >> > >> > Stephen wrote: >> >> >> >> I have built several including a few with 3 drives in raid 5. they do >> >> exist, just not common unless you get into some of the more desktop >> >> replacement systems. most mainstream Tier 1/2 vendors just use one to >> >> save space/cost/complexity >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Lisa Kachold wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Gee, >> >>>> >> >>>> Anyone know an easy tool or procedure to make a standard Laptop C and >> D >> >>>> drive no longer mirrored instead 2 usable drives? >> >>>> >> >>>> I heard a rumor that you can boot into say Knoppix and use gpartd? >> >>>> >> >>>> -- >> >>>> Office: (480)307-8707 >> >>>> AT&T: (503)754-4452 >> >>>> >> >>> That doesn't sound right. Are you sure that the drive D is a mirror, >> and >> >>> not >> >>> a recovery partition? Mirroring to a separate partition on the same >> drive >> >>> would seem to me to be pointless, and I've never heard of a Laptop >> with 2 >> >>> HDDs. >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> -Eric 'shubes' >> >>> >> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > -- >> > -Eric 'shubes' >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Office: (480)307-8707 AT&T: (503)754-4452