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merging partitions on a hard drive?
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1/1/00 12:00am
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merging partitions on a hard drive?
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Can anyone point me to an idiots guide to doing it? Or a free/cheap program? Somehow my sons managed to put like 6 partitions on his computer lol.
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regulator_cracka
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Hum, I have never tried a "merge", but I have had great luck with EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1 Home Edition for partition manipulations, which is free.
I am not sure if it does merges, but I would bet it will, worth a look.
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Cao_Ren
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Backup your data, delete the partitions, recreate however many partitions you want, and reformat.
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Date Posted:
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thanks!
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regulator_cracka
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Cao_Ren posted:
Backup your data, delete the partitions, recreate however many partitions you want, and reformat.
This actually makes more sense, or you could use a tool to shrink as much as you can and add the excess to one of them. Not as good, but decent if you can not delete all data.
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MajorUnknown
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Date Posted:
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I was in need of an application that could enlarge a partition with space from a secondary partition (i.e. make C larger with space from D). I found a pretty sweet FREE program on Cnet called MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition.
I am fairly sure it will work for what you need to do also. Give it a try.
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Cao_Ren
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Merging partitions with software sounds like a good idea, but you'll notice that they all advise backing up your data if something goes wrong.
So, by my own logic, if you're backing everything up anyway, it's generally better to do a clean format and just reinstall your backed up files.
But I'm a geek who actually likes a clean format every now and then....
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MajorUnknown
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Date Posted:
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Cao_Ren posted:
Merging partitions with software sounds like a good idea, but you'll notice that they all advise backing up your data if something goes wrong.
So, by my own logic, if you're backing everything up anyway, it's generally better to do a clean format and just reinstall your backed up files.
But I'm a geek who actually likes a clean format every now and then....
Well, using ANY software for anything really should TECHNICALLY warrant backing up your files. Let's get real here, your hard drive CAN go to garbage at any point in time.
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