re-partition hard drive in vista home premium Other Vista Discussions Discuss re-partition hard drive in vista home premium in the Windows Vista forums; my system: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2 GB PC5700 DDR2 RAM Dual Nvidia 7600GS PCI-E video cards Dual Seagate SATA II ...

[teejayh]

my system:
Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
2 GB PC5700 DDR2 RAM
Dual Nvidia 7600GS PCI-E video cards
Dual Seagate SATA II 400 GB HDD
Windows Vista Home Premium

Everything works great. i installed Linux Ubuntu as an alternate O/S. I had to partition the 2nd hard drive to install it to there. so the hard drive was at 150gb for Ubuntu and 250GB for a slave to the windows drive. I bought a Cavalry External 500BG Sata II hard drive but could not get the Ubuntu O/S to recognize it. I uninstalled Ubuntu and fixed the MBR so it just booted to Vista. Now my 2nd hard disk is still partitioned and i would like to get it back to one partition. Would someone help me out and give me some pointers on how to re-partition the hard drive? Thanks!

[Snuffy]

Work thru Control Panel, Administrative tools, computer management, then Disk management.... click your HD partation and use properties, to change.

[Znod]

Yes, and the Disk Management help file is quite good.

[teejayh]

thanks guys, I figured it out last night. I was just deleted the partitions and then when they were all gond i reformatted the HD again.
Thanks for your help! Next up is figuring out the advantages of connecting my Nvidia Video Cards in SLI mode and how to do it...

[Znod]

Good luck teejayh. Glad your first step worked out easily. And, yes, why not just format and start over since installation is do fast? Well, at least if you do not have much additional software to install.

[Snuffy]

Next up is figuring out the advantages of connecting my Nvidia Video Cards in SLI mode and how to do it...

Enter into the BIOS, and make sure PCI-E is turned on, them make sure POWER ON to PCI is enabled... then shut down... plug both PCI-E Video cards into the respective PCI-E slots...Reboot... and then enjoy twice the Video Power... Sometimes the manufacture also ask that you plug one of the extra power plugs into the mobo... with which to assist in POWER TO THE TWIN PCI-E SLI VIDEO CARDS...CHECK YOUR MANUAL...