Removing the Partition in my Hard-drives

[tuNaB2nroB]

I have 2 hard drives,

however the one I'm running XP on is really puny and is being pushed to it's max limit.

I have another hard drive installed, I wanted to remove the partition however i was told that this would require me to format.

Is there a way to combine these 2 hard drives without formatting?

 

[Amber]

Yes use Partition Magic Pro

 

[AJPatel]

Are they A) 2 seperate physical drives or B) just one with two partitions?

If A, there's no way to combine two drives unless you have a RAID setup and you wouldn't unless you knew what that was, so essentially, there's no way to do it.
If B, you may try some utility like PartitionMagic.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

If A, there's no way to combine two drives unless you have a RAID setup and you wouldn't unless you knew what that was, so essentially, there's no way to do it.

Actually, if you have XP pro, you can do this using spanned volumes on dynamic disks. (not a feature on XP home, BTW)

 

[AJPatel]

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage

If A, there's no way to combine two drives unless you have a RAID setup and you wouldn't unless you knew what that was, so essentially, there's no way to do it.

Actually, if you have XP pro, you can do this using spanned volumes on dynamic disks. (not a feature on XP home, BTW)

WOW! Interesting - I looked into it and sure enough you're right
Here's a link if you want to know about it, Tuna:

Microsoft TechNet