My computer came with two identical 160 gig hard disks and Ghost (version 10 I think) already installed.  Ghost started reporting lots of errors, and failed while installing updates, and I finally gave up on it.  I uninstalled it but I don't see how to get the disk space back.   Drive C has 108 gigs total space and drive D has ~38 gigs total space reported by Windows XP-Pro.  Perhaps those are partitions on the same disk.  The disks are referred to as an Array.   Does Windows support RAID?  

I want my two 160 gig disks back so that I can remove one and install my new 1Tb secondary drive.  How do I seperate them without losing my data on Drive C?  Reformatting means reinstalling and reconfiguring everything which would be extremely time consuming and I really can't afford to do that right now.

Thanks.

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@ Richard Xeon

Yes, Windows supports RAID.  Yes, it looks like you have two partitions dividing up your 160 GB HDD.  And you most likely have RAID 1 (mirroring) set up--that's where two HDDs have the identical information saved to each in a redundant fashion--if one where to crash, you could simply remove the dead drive and the other would carry on as if nothing had happened.  (Of course--if you get a virus saved to your RAID 1 array--then both HDDs are equally infected!!!  So, this redundancy does not serve as a *backup* of the system's prior state that can be restored--if you save something so one drive, it is also saved to the other.)

To *break* an array, you should see a brief screen during boot that says to hit a certain key combination to enter the RAID configuration utility--what exact wording you see will depend on your system.  You should be given several choices, one of which is to delete the *array* so that the two disks are just two separate disks.  If you do that, I would immediately shut down the system after exiting the configuration utility, and disconnect the HDD that's in the *slave* position on the IDE comm ribbon (the middle connector--not either of the ends!)--or disconnect the HDD connected to the secondary HDD controller--that's for older style parallel IDE HDDs.  If SATA, then I think you would just disconnect the HDD that's on the secondary controller.

If you're not sure what you're doing or how things are setup on your system--I would spend some quality time learning how it is setup before proceeding with any major changes!!!  And, it's always a good idea to have an *actual* backup available should something go wrong, or there is a *user error* that causes major HDD problems during a re-configuration of your system.