Deleting Drives

[Creed_what_else]

I noticed today that I have more drives than I am supposed to. I looked further to find out that 2 of the extra drives are just backups of what I have on the C: drive. How can I get rid of these drives?

Thanks,
Chris

[redstone]

Assuming you have one partitioned hard drive, you can't without losing all data. However, you can just format the drives that hold the back up data, if you like.
Now, if they are physical drives, you will have to remove the hard drives from the case. I don't know why you would want to do that though. A person can never have too much hard drive space.

[Creed_what_else]

I figured it out. Thanks anyway!

Chris

[Junky]

What is it that you figured out? It may help someone else in the future when searching for such a problem answer. :)

[Creed_what_else]

Never mind I didn't actually figure it out. I found a way to get rid of having to view the backup drive, but not how to delete it. Does anyone know what to do to get rid of the Drive? The drive is not a hardware. It is just as the C: drive is on your computer only it is a backup. Does anyone know how to get rid of it?

Chris

[Creed_what_else]

This might help also. I tried formating the drive and it said that it was being used by another disk utility and that it was locked.

-Chris

[Junky]

Did you try "fdisk" and remove all the partitions first? That may fix things to be able to format.

[Creed_what_else]

Ok I figured it out! My mom had up McAfee Safe and Sound and had like for different backup drives used. I just went in to Safe and Sound and found a place to delete the backups, which clears the drives.