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re merging partitions
Name: felixtc Date: April 21, 2008 at 06:15:11 Pacific OS: xp/vista CPU/Ram: 1 Product: amd
Comment:
with 'partition genius' I want to merge 2 partitions the merge option ia greyed out therefore un-available
perhaps NFTS file systems cannot be merged?
also, is it feasible to change NFTS file system back to fat32
Name: kx5m2g Date: April 21, 2008 at 07:19:02 Pacific
Reply:
NFTS file systems can be merged. I assume that one of your partitions is the bootable C drive. That might be why 'partition genius' won't allow you to merge them. Does the other partition contain any programs or just data ? If you back up the data, then you could reformat the nonbootable partition and then try to reallocate the free space to the C drive instead of merging. If the other partition contains programs, you would have to reinstall the programs to the C drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: felixtc Date: April 21, 2008 at 18:34:31 Pacific
Reply:
thanks that makes good sense
what about changing NFTS back to fat 32 i used to prefer fat 32
felix
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Response Number 3
Name: jefro Date: April 21, 2008 at 19:13:49 Pacific
Reply:
Why not use Vista to merge the partitions?
Pretty sure you can't convert directly to fat.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10
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Response Number 4
Name: felixtc Date: April 22, 2008 at 06:44:56 Pacific
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vista is on the drive I wish to merge with another smaller drive to give vista more space for your info I run xp on C and dual boot vista on D then E & F are smaller drives I use for extra stuff I really don't need both of them
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