partition my hard drive

[chuckman45]

hi, i have a laptop with a 2g harddrive but it is partitioned in 2 parts.
i want to make it just 1 partition how would i go about doing this.
thanks

[Rat]

What operating system do you have? If you have Win95, which version; A B or C?

Rat...

[chuckman45]

rat its win98

[captpete]

Usually people want to do just the opposite. May I ask why you want to merge them? All the pros and cons are on the side of multiple partitions, but if you must merge them, the only way to do so without re-formatting, is to use a commercial program that does the same thing as FDISK, but preserves all your data and programs on the drive without having to erase them.

[Rat]

The Capt is right.... the proggy he is describing is Partition Magic or similar, there are free ones out there as well. In fact there was a thread just a few days ago that had a link to a free partition tool, if I find it, I'll post it.

Rat...

[By-tor & the Snow Dog]

Chuckman45, I forgot the link, but I'll e-mail you the prog. Worked well for me.

By-Tor

[By-tor & the Snow Dog]

Here you go, the link to a BOATLOAD of free prog's that really are useful!
http://www.sover.net/~whoi/WinUtils1.html

Good Luck!

By-Tor

[Spenser]

thanks for the link by-tor!

also chuck you can use the regular fdisk but that will require formatying and reinstalling windows. i usally use fdsik Partition Magic seems nice.

-spenser

[otheos]

fdisk is destructive, so you need backup and repartition

Partition magic is expensive, considering the few things it does.

So here is Partition resizer: Free

get it here: http://members.nbci.com/Zeleps/


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[chuckman45]

thanks to all i used partition magic and everything is fine.