Removing partition

[fyxxer32]

My friend has an problem with his hard drive running out of space. He says the drive(a 4 gb) is partitioned into 2 parts, the second part being some kind of back up thing, First aid? I think he said, so everything gets backed up to the second part , does that make sense? He wants to recover that space , dump the back up program. Cant we just fire up fdisk, tell it to remove the partition? The data on that part is lost then which is ok. Does that space have to be formatted? And what about the rest of the hd, will we lose those files?
Ive never tried to remove a partition before and saved the files,only fully formatted ...

[Steve R Jones]

You'll have to get a programlike Partition Magic to remove the partition and keep the existing data. You can also seach this board for a freebie called Ranish.

[linthead]

I just performed this task on a 4 GIG hard drive. If the OS is before Windows95B then you are limited to 2.1 GIG partitions and you have FAT16 partitions. I had to install Windows95B OSR2 to use the whole hard drive as one partition. I believe any use of FDISK to change partition sizes will wipe your disk clean. Partition Magic can be used if you have at least Windows95B and Fat32 already. You better backup all personal files before changing your partition sizes.