Any way to merge a partition into my root partition? using ntfs in xp?

[Tbirdkid]

requires a good answer... please.

 

[nukexbi]

Use Partition Magic. It should do the trick.

-Scott

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: nukexbi
Use Partition Magic. It should do the trick.

-Scott

 

[Nothinman]

The good answer is PQMagic, but even with that you have a 50/50 or at best 75/25 chance of it actually working. Make sure you have a good backup before trying it.

 

[Navid]

Partition Magic is known to do a bad job in merging partitions. Just do a Google search on Partition Magic and merge and you will see lots of posts by the victims.

The best way to merge say partition D with C is to move all data from D to C using copy in Windows. Then, delete partition D. Then, resize partition C.

Either way, you should always backup your data before modifying partitions.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Depending on what you wanted to use the new space for, you could just mount the new partition to an NTFS folder.

For example, I just removed the drive letter from my CD-Rom drive and remounted it as c:\CDROM

You could mount your new partition as c:\Data or whatever you wanted

 

[oog]

I would either mount the partition in a folder or expand the c:\ partition with empty space (but not directly merge two partitions)

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: Navid
Partition Magic is known to do a bad job in merging partitions. Just do a Google search on Partition Magic and merge and you will see lots of posts by the victims.

The best way to merge say partition D with C is to move all data from D to C using copy in Windows. Then, delete partition D. Then, resize partition C.

Either way, you should always backup your data before modifying partitions.

i think he wanted to merge without having to format the drive.