I just installed a new HDD...how do i make it become part of the C:/ memory?

i have vista home basic,with a 160gb HDD..i just installed a maxtor 160gb HDD but instead of it becoming part of my C drive memory, the set-up made me choose another drive letter for it(F-drive)!! i'm low on HDD memory(RAM is 2gigs) and i need the two to join together...what's up???how do i do that??? thanks

I just installed a new HDD...how do i make it become part of the C:/ memory?
Re- start and windows should take you through what to do. Think it takes about 5 Min's.
Reply:there isn't anyway to join this to seperated hdd..


on RAID you can do
Reply:I don't think you can make it a part of the C drive memory. Maybe you could move a few gigs of data from your C drive to this new hard drive. That would free up the memory space on the C drive.
Reply:Well, generally you can't do that.


There's ways to do it with RAID and such, but you couldn't do it to a running disk.


Are you sure your C:\ drive is low? You mentioned 2 GB of RAM, I just want to clarify that you aren't mistaking RAM memory for Hard Drive (HDD) memory (usually called storage), as they are two completely different things.





Anyways, when you add a second hard drive it will be a new drive, with a new letter. Not a part of your existing drive.
Reply:Assuming it is IDE...It cannot become part of the C: drive since it is a physically different drive. It will have to be a different drive letter.





What you need to do is move your large storage folders off the C: drive onto the new drive. These could be all the folders containing your music, videos, pictures, etc.





Start using the C drive for your programs and new drive for all you storage of files. I've done that in the past. Should work out ok for you.
Reply:Move some directories from C drive to F drive - since they are separate physical volumes they need to have different drive letters