Re: Deleting unneeded partition (D), combine with C, without loss in O
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 09:00:17 -0700
Cal M wrote:
System is Dell I9300, Xp Pro, 2gb mem, all latest updates
My hard drive shows a C and a D partition, os on the C.
C: Basic NTFS 15gb approx, 5.4 free space left
D: Basic NTFS 42 gb approx, 32 gb free space. These are my data files.
I want to temp. store data files on an external drive, and then
combine the D vol into the C for an unpartitioned disk. That would
give me more free space for the os files plus returned data files.
Been reading MS help on partitions etc, but it is not clear to me if
I can accomplish this. I don't want to mess up my OS, obviously. Any
help?
First a word on the terminology. What you want is *not* "an unpartitioned
disk," but a disk with just a single partition, C: I stress this because if
you don't understand the correct terminology, you are likely to misread
instructions on how to do this and do the wrong thing. For example, if you
were literally to unpartition your drive, you would lose *everything* on it.
To answer your question, unfortunately no version of Windows provides any
way of changing the existing partition structure of the drive
nondestructively. The only way to do what you want is with third-party
software. Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but there are
freeware/shareware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next Generation.
It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you should be able to
do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used it myself (because I've
never needed to use *any* such program), but it comes highly recommended by
several other MVPs here.
Whatever software you use, make sure you have a good backup before
beginning. Although there's no reason to expect a problem, things *can* go
wrong.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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