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Merging 2 partitions
Name: Kixfan Date: March 26, 2009 at 18:15:12 Pacific OS: Windows xp pro CPU/Ram: 1.2ghz/364mb Product: Hewlett-packard / Xt963 Subcategory: Hard Drives
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I have a laptop hard drive I have placed in a case to use as a portable storage drive. It had 2 partitions due to a restore partition. How do I merge them into 1 partition hopefully using windows and not an outside program. If not possible then what program will work? Thanks Dennis
Name: OtheHill Date: March 26, 2009 at 18:19:11 Pacific
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If you don't need to save any data on the partitions all you need to do is to delete both partitions and then create one, using all the available space.
The laptop the drive came out of is no longer in use then? Because there are important files on one of those two partitions.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kixfan Date: March 26, 2009 at 18:25:30 Pacific
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No I already formatted both partitions separately but want the drive for portable storage. The laptop motherboard died 2 weeks after the warranty ran out! Gotta love gateway! New motherboard over $400 so I'm using the drive.
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Response Number 3
Name: Kixfan Date: March 26, 2009 at 19:12:58 Pacific
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There is no command to delete the drives. How do I do this?
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: March 26, 2009 at 23:52:54 Pacific
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Go to Disk Management and you can delete the partitions and create new from there.
Right click on My computer> manage> storage> disk management.
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