software recommendation for merging two partitions without data loss

[spanky]

basically, i have a laptop hard drive with a 10gb (system) and 20gb (data) partitions. i would like to combine these two partitions without loss of data. normally, i would just back up the data to another drive, but at this time, i am without a drive to back up the data partition. what software would you recommend to combine the two partitions? again, i emphasize that i would like to do this without loss of data. a google search seems to imply that partition magic 8 will do this. can anyone confirm this, or recommend another software that will satisfy my needs? thank you.

 

[rh71]

partitionmagic can do this easily and has without fault for me in the past. Never lost any data but anything that has to do with moving data always takes a while. I'm sure there are other tools too, but that's always the first that comes to mind for me.