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Merge Partitions?

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21stHermit

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Is there an application that will merge 2 NTFS Partitions? Freeware, Shareware, Boxed?

In order to repair MediaDirect on a Dell lappie, I have to create a 1.4GB NTFS partition seperate from WinXP. I'm 90% certain that the MediaDirect feature resides on flash and once the repair is complete, I can recover the partition. So rather than do a complete XP install, if I could merge this partition into C: then life would be good.

Thanks
Hermit
 
I'm sure partition manager will do the job. But if you want to try shareware, I suggest Gnome Partition Editor, or GParted. I just got a laptop that came with 2 fat32 partitions. I converted them to ntfs, then merged with GParted. You can download it for freee as an ISO, burn it to a CD, then boot off the CD. It worked great for me. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
But if you want to try shareware, I suggest Gnome Partition Editor, or GParted
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Just being pedantic, but GParted is not shareware by any means, it's actually free.
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Haha, yes your are being pedantic, but yes the correct term is "open source" or "opensource" or "OSS" or "FOSS" or "F/OSS".... I think that is all the variants. I just call it open source. Anyway, that is not the point of this post. The point is:

:thumbsup: for GParted LiveCD.
 
Haha, yes your are being pedantic, but yes the correct term is "open source" or "opensource" or "OSS" or "FOSS" or "F/OSS".... I think that is all the variants. I just call it open source. Anyway, that is not the point of this post.
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Yes, but the terms 'shareware', 'freeware', etc all ring of crappy $10 Windows software from download.com so it's like nails on a chalkboard to me when someone calls free software 'freeware'.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Haha, yes your are being pedantic, but yes the correct term is "open source" or "opensource" or "OSS" or "FOSS" or "F/OSS".... I think that is all the variants. I just call it open source. Anyway, that is not the point of this post.
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Yes, but the terms 'shareware', 'freeware', etc all ring of crappy $10 Windows software from download.com
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so it's like nails on a chalkboard to me when someone calls free software 'freeware'.
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QFT. In comparison, "Open Source," to me, has a connotation of feature-rich, high-quality, robust software.
 
Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Haha, yes your are being pedantic, but yes the correct term is "open source" or "opensource" or "OSS" or "FOSS" or "F/OSS".... I think that is all the variants. I just call it open source. Anyway, that is not the point of this post.
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Yes, but the terms 'shareware', 'freeware', etc all ring of crappy $10 Windows software from download.com
Click to expand...
so it's like nails on a chalkboard to me when someone calls free software 'freeware'.
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QFT. In comparison, "Open Source," to me, has a connotation of feature-rich, high-quality, robust software.
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That is very true. I'm too the point where, I don't see the point in purchasing much software anymore, cuz I can find an open source app that I end up liking better.
 
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