Recombining partitions

[madh83]

I have an older harddrive as my system drive with windows on it and etc. It came from an older Dell computer, it seems pretty healthy though, so I wanted to continue using it. The thing is it's got three partitions, I think one is Dell restore stuff, another is the main chunk with 95% of the space. There's a 3rd that is 47mb of space and has no readable label. Kind of odd, but I was wondering if there was a program I could use to recombine all the partitions before I use this for a fresh install? I'm hoping for it to be as painless and fast as possible.

Thanks ahead of time.

 

[daveybrat]

When you go to do the fresh install of windows, simply delete all partitions shown until you get one large unallocated space. Then just hit enter and install windows on the single partition. No special software needed.


By the way, the 2 extra partitions are the restore and the diagnostics partitions from dell. Not needed when you reinstall xp from scratch.