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Combining two partitions

Nocturnal

Nocturnal

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I am running Windows XP Pro with all updates and SP2 installed. I'm trying to combine two partitions, one is a 10GB which holds the Windows installation files and then the other was for storage but now that I'm using so much up on the 10GB I'd like to combine the two.

I've attempted to use Diskpart as it's apart of Windows but I keep getting this error:

Diskpart failed to extend the volume. Please make sure the volume is valid for extending

The 10GB partition is NTFS while the rest of the hard drive is unallocated.
 
Do you have data on both partitions? Are these seperate physical drives, or logical partitions on the same drive?
 
Logical on the same drive and I have data on the main 10GB partition while the other one has been formatted. I can delete the other one and make it allocated but it does not do anything.
 
Unless you want to start from scratch and delete/recreate your partitions, you will have to use a third-party application such as partition Magic or Acronis disk director.
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Logical on the same drive and I have data on the main 10GB partition while the other one has been formatted. I can delete the other one and make it allocated but it does not do anything.
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You probable want to use a 3rd party tool like partition magic (this is my recommendation) for performance reasons. IIRC dynamic disk types, because of the nature of the volume you create, aren't "fast" as the data could be spread out much more than file fragmentation. Though I have not done any performance testing on them.

I believe there is a tool on the ultimate boot CD to do this, I have not used/tested this tool. Partition magic will do the trick, at a cost.

In windows you should be abled to do the following:
Step 1 Convert the basic disk to dynamic.
Step 2, Extend the volume.
 
Originally posted by: bacillus
Unless you want to start from scratch and delete/recreate your partitions, you will have to use a third-party application such as partition Magic or Acronis disk director.
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Ditto. Many people prefer Acronis.
 
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