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| 380659 | 2005-08-13 00:06:00 | Hi guys I sit with a 50 GB HD, partitioned into 4 drives - 5, 15,15,15. I want to combine on of the 15's with the 5 (the C drive), so that I do not run into the problem of low disk space. Is that achievable without reformatting the whole HD? XP, P4, 1.7 GHZ sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 380660 | 2005-08-13 00:13:00 | Go into control panel / admin tools / comp management / disk management. Delete one of the 15gb partitions. Since all of them belong to 1 hdd. This would fix it I think? Other than that use Partitionmagic. Just make sure if theres something on it to copy it to another partition. If it isnt a program. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 380661 | 2005-08-13 00:18:00 | What about FAT32 and NFTS - I think the C is NTFS and the others FAT 32 - does that matter? sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 380662 | 2005-08-13 00:26:00 | Use partition Magic (or something similar). From memory Partition Magic will allow you to change the FAT32 partition to NTFS before you merge them. It should also merge the 2 partitions non destructively (though I would back up anything within those 2 partitions in case something goes wrong). |
Myth (110) | ||
| 380663 | 2005-08-13 01:50:00 | I want to combine on of the 15's with the 5 (the C drive), so that I do not run into the problem of low disk space . Is that achievable without reformatting the whole HD? If Windows is on the C: drive then you will need to use Partition Magic or similar to merge the partitions without reformatting or losing data . You will also need to use PM or similar to merge partitions that contain data . If the partitions were both empty you could use Disk Management and delete two partitions then create one single partition with the free space . I have done that many times when rearranging my hard drives . Any data on them will be lost, however . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 380664 | 2005-08-15 23:26:00 | Got Partition Magic 8 from a friend yesterday - and lo and behold, my C;drive has increased to 11 GB - took me the best part of 5 minutes. Wonderful program. Thanks for the good advice. sarel |
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