A while back i had separate partitions for WinVista/WinXP; Now My Win7 is going to arrive shortly and i need help to merge all three of these drives into one partition.
Is this possible? If so how can I accomplish it.
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Usually you can resize the partions
So partition 3 is 308GB
1. delete partition 3
2. Resize partition 1, now it's 454GB
3. add stuff from partition 2 to partition 1.
4. Delete partition 2.
5. Resize partition 1
6. You're done!
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I don't know how to accomplish it, unless you can do something in the bios...
And to do this i don't have to delete my current installation? As the upgrade disc that is coming requires my current WindowsVista installation intact to work :(.
resizing doesn't delete anything. When you made partitions, you sized down and split the hard drive, now you're resizing them up.
How can do this, a program? Device manager?
Use a partition resizing utility such as [url=http://gparted.sourceforge.net/]gParted[/url] (has a LiveCD for people without Linux).
There are many other utilities, but I've only used gParted personally and it worked well.
[QUOTE=-SC-Lakitu;19374142]Use a partition resizing utility such as [url=http://gparted.sourceforge.net/]gParted[/url] (has a LiveCD for people without Linux).
There are many other utilities, but I've only used gParted personally and it worked well.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Gparted is great. Very simple and easy to use.
A word of warning, first disable your pagefile, reboot into safe mode and defrag all your partitions before messing around with them. If you don't do this first, the resizing process will take much longer, and if your PC locks up/crashes/etc. during the resize, there's a very big chance you'll lose most of your stuff, if not all of it.
GParted is an excellent program for partition managing; it is included in an Ubuntu LiveCD, if you happen to have one around.
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