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Need help with partitioned HDD

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harsh

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My father-in-law has a HDD that is partitioned into two drives is there a way to make it one drive (de-partition) without having to fdsik and format? The kid who lives next door to him set up his comp and was just experimenting with with my f-i-l comp.
 
Use Partition Magic and you shall be fine. Be careful and save all your data before you proceed.

Rajat🙂
 
I don't think partition magic will let you merge the partitions like that (I've used Partition Magic versions 3-5). It will only help you resize the partitions. I've never used or heard of the other one.

For your particular problem, depending how much data you have on the second partition, you have to manually move everything over as you resize (resize second part to minimum, move stuff to first part until first part full, repeat procedure until done). Or else, you could get a temporary hard drive or burn the data onto reliable CDRs, delete the secondary partition, resize the first one, and restore the data.

Best of luck to ya.
 
I think you should use a combination of Powerquest's drive image and their parition magic.

1. Delete any uneeded files of both partitions (i.e game installations)

2. use drive image to copy all data from one partition to the other (you can use compression too)

3. use partition magic to re-size the partition that you did not scan as an image and then boot back up and extract the image to the new unified partition.

How come your father-in-law wanted to de-partition it anyway?

Corm
 
Thanks for the help guys. I just can't see paying $70 for the partition magic software. I guess I will try the other one first. I amy even take my HDD over there and save his data to mine then just format his HDD.

The reasoning for the de-partitioning is because one partition is full and it is starting to become a pain in the arse for him. He is not very computer literate and if I can make it easier on him the better off he'll be.
 
I reckon if you searched the net you could find some not so legal copies, theres a lot of warez sites about, but you could try the other options suggest by AC.

Respect.
Corm
 
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