Need to merge 2 windows xp partitions

[Dallascisco]

I have a customer that set up his machine in correctly and of course drops it in my lap to fix. He installed a 320 gb hard drive and cloned his 160 incorrectly. Now he has 2 160 gb partitions on his 320 gb drive.

Do you guys know of a free utility I can use to merge both partitions together?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Partition Magic is not free but will do the job.

If your customer wants it done, then they should pay for it.

Otherwise, what is the problem having 2 partitions?

 

[Dallascisco]

I don't see a problem but he's a whiner and wnats in that way. I know partition majic will work but i'm not spending money on a piece of software I'll never use again.

Originally posted by: Common Courtesy
Partition Magic is not free but will do the job.

If your customer wants it done, then they should pay for it.

Otherwise, what is the problem having 2 partitions?

 

[doan]

use a spare hard drive to image his C:\ partition, and copy any files on his d:\ partition. Then restore the image to his entire drive and copy back the files you saved from his D:\ partition.

The free version of Acronis should be able to do this.

 

[toadeater]

Originally posted by: Dallascisco
I don't see a problem but he's a whiner and wnats in that way. I know partition majic will work but i'm not spending money on a piece of software I'll never use again.

GParted.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

 

[0roo0roo]

not free. pmagic as said. dangerous. if fail..dataloss.
as said above, copy all data to another drive, image it. not free, large empty drive required and time.
two partitions is better than one. makes imaging/restoring os easier.

 

[corkyg]

Sometimes inadvertant errors are a plus. Your "customer" actually did a good thing. Use one partition for the OS and programs, and the other for data. IMHO, it makes disk management more efficient.

Of course, if he still has his old 160, then he can reclone using Acronis TI-11, and do it PROPORTIONALLY so it ends up in one humongous partition.