Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware
Titolo: merge partitions

Hi all,
I have an 80GB hard disk with 6 partitions of about 13GB each. I want
to merge two of the partitions. I know it can be done using third party
software such as PartitionMagic, but I don't have it. The two
partitions which I want to merge don't have any data (i.e. I can afford
to clean them up before merging). Is there a way to merge the two
partitions without risking the data on other partitions (and without
using PartitionMagic etc)?
One way which comes to my mind is to boot from WinXP CD, and proceed as
if installing WinXP. When it comes to the stage where it asks for the
partition where to install, we have an option there to delete (and
create) partitions. I do the needful there, and then don't proceed to
install WinXP. Please suggest if it is a sensible and safe way, and if
yes, when I delete one partition, how to make it merge to the desired
other partition.

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Thankyou for your suggestions.
I downloaded and tried BootItNG as suggested by Jim.
I made a bootable floppy, and ran BootITNG, as suggested. As an
experiment, I first deleted an empty partition (F:). The entry, after
deletion, showed "Free Space". After that, I tried to Resize another
partition (G:), and reduced its size by 2GB (I had this much free space
available on this partition). It successfully reduced its size by 2GB,
and created ANOTHER Free Space entry of 2GB. I would have thought that
this free space should have been clubbed automatically wih the previous
free space obtained by deleting F:, but it is showing as a separate
entry in BootItNG.
Now, I have a few queries. my first query is: If I take a third
partition (say C:), and increase its size, from where the free space
would be taken and added to C:?
My second query is: If C: is the system partition (i.e. contains WinXP
and other data), can I still safely increase its size without losing
data?
And finally, how can I combine the two free spaces and make one
partition out of these? "My Computer" is now simply not showing the
letter related to the deleted partition (F:), and not showing the two
free spaces (I tried rebotting also).
Also, what exactly does the Slide function do?
Thanks


I've addressed that above.  Once you have the additional partition, you made
need to go into Windows Disk Management to force it to recognize it by
initializing it.
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Jim, Thanks a lot for introducing me to such a useful utility. I was
able to slide and resize partions successfully.
As I have understood, you said (?) that this creates logical partitions
rather than physical partitions (or the other way round?). Can there be
any implications of this or complications at some stage later with the
hard disk due to this fact?

Hi,
A small problem noticed after resizing on of the partitions. I
increased the size of D: partition which had XP and also
NortonSystemWorks-2004. NortonSystemWorks used to run well before
resizing. After resizing,
when I launch it, a installer window opens, and says "Please wait while
Windows configures
Norton SystemWorks 2004 Professional", and then another window saying
"The feature you are
trying to use is on a CD-ROM that is not available..." and prompts me
to insert the CD-ROM. I don't have the NortonSystemWorks CD. It asks me
to try to find installation package 'NSW.MSI', I manually searched for
this in the entire hard disk, but couldn't find.
Is there a way to make NortonSystemWorks work again without the
original CD?
Thanks

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