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Re-joining hd partitions with fdisk?
Name: Jacob Gunness Date: October 2, 2001 at 03:58:23 Pacific
Comment:
Hi! After reading lots and lots of FAQs and forums, I'm still baffled: How do I join two existing hd partitions using fdisk (Win98's DOS version)? The partitions are empty, so data loss is not an issue. I've gone through all the options, deleting extended and logical drives, hence thinking that the now-unused partitions would "merge" with the primary partition. Not so - if I try formatting the primary partition, the extra space from the other partitions just doesn't "show up". I hope somebody can help me with this question, which is probably really simple to answer :o) Thanks in advance, Jacob
Name: dan Date: October 2, 2001 at 08:56:08 Pacific
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fdisk will not "merge" partitions- you need to delete ALL partitions and make a new one.
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Response Number 2
Name: Antecagent Date: October 6, 2001 at 16:04:26 Pacific
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not possible with fdsik...first even if you could rejoin it must be of the same format as the other...I tell you what you should is go to www.downloads.com and get ranish partition manager this may help...I made a "rejoin" using fat before but I do not recommend doing this..
The best solution is PowerQuests Partion Manager 7.0 works wonderfully!
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Response Number 3
Name: Hawk Date: December 6, 2001 at 11:55:38 Pacific
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When you refer to "deleting" a partition, does that mean deleting the data on it too, or simply the partiton; leaving the data intact?
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