partitioned drive by mistake

[kermalou]

my little cousin was installing xp on her machine and for some reason now has two hard drives c: and e:. on the c drive it was partitioned for 2 gb and the e dirve has 10 (it's a 12gb drive, i believe). but anyway, now how do i get rid of the partition. the computer keeps on saying that the c drive is out of memory, but I can't do anything about it. do you fellas have any ideas on how to maybe merge the two drives?

 

[bacillus]

partition magic 7!

 

[Sapilas]

i never liked those programs.... like partision magic...

let the force be with you during the reunion of the drives..

well if I was in your position I would go 4 the reformat repartition . .safer

 

[pm]

There are two choices:

1. using a program, like Partition Magic, to repartition the drive.
2. copying everything onto another drive or media, repartitioning the drive, reformating the drive, and then copying everything back again.

The former is easy, but somewhat expensive. Unlike Sapilas I believe that the process is fundamentally safe if you use a good program like PM7. I haven't heard of anyone losing data using PM7. The latter is a pain, but it's free except in time. And you need a way to to back up the drive. If you don't have an easy way to do that, then we are back to #1 again.

 

[kermalou]

i don't care about the data on the drive, i tried to re-install xp but it says that there is no free memory to do so.

 

[bacillus]

were you trying to install by booting off the cd?

 

[sak]

use partition magic man...its as easy as 1..2..3... but know how to use if first... should work like a charm...